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effectively object: and for the Chinese Government to
weigh the opposition of some Chinese manufacturers
against the general advantage of such an arrangement.
8. (see above).
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that
9. It is also possible to argue the opposite
the agitation for a change in the status of Hong Kong
would be greater, the more it is possible for it to be
used as a smuggling centre, from which the legitimate
revenue interests of China can be injured.
10. It is quite true that, given the incredibly
inefficient statistical machinery in Hong Kong, a fair
division would present great difficulties:
but it would
be a relatively small matter to improve this machinery
enormously.
11. The difficulty would be no greater, but much
less, than those which have for many years existed in
different parts of China, both before the unification
of her currency, and, since then, with parts of China
to which that did not apply.
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