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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
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Wednesday, April 26, 1978,
#t HONG KONG: BRITAIN'S SHOWCASE IN ASIA
Following is the full text of a speech given by the Governor, Sir Murray MacLehose, at a meeting on "Hong Kong: Britain's Showcase in Asia", at the Confederation of British Industry in London, on Wednesday, April 26, 1978:
It is for Lord Nelson and Kr. March and Mr. Forter and our
chairman (Mr. John Browne) to explain in detail the opportunities that
exist in Hong Kong for the British businessman looking for an export
market, a base for exports to or investment in the S.E. Asia region or a manufacturing base. My task is to tell you what sort of place and
away.
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a market it is. Te venture to commend it to you. But it is 8,000 miles
Its territory is only 400 square miles and its population only 41⁄2 million. References to it in the English media are usually highly coloured
What is there so special and often disparaging. Thy should you bother? about it? The short answer is that it is among the twenty largest trading
units in the world.
I am no admirer of that early nineteenth century era in which the
seizure of colonies by developed nations was the order of the day
like so many British and other colonies, Hong Kong dates from that time. But it is a striking fact that of that era, Hong Kong alone survives and
prospers as a colony of any economic significanos,
/It has done ...............
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