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For the rest our major problem has been immigra-
tion into an already much too crowded territory. Refugees from
Vietnam and immigrants from China. There was a period last
summer,
year.
before the Geneva Conference, when 1 000 a day were
arriving by boat from Vietnam and another 1 000 from China by
The Geneva Conference in which the land, boat or swimming.
United States played such a decisive part stopped the
Vietnamese flow. But immigration from China continues and
the numbers amounted to just under 100 000 in 1978, nearly
180 000 last year, and it looks like being not much less this
Additions at this level to a population of only 5 million
with a low and well controlled natural growth rate, could
insidiously erode standards of life that have been worked for
and earned over the last two decades. We are taking strong
measures to intercept the stream and so are the Chinese to whom
it is just as damaging as to us. But stopping a population
movement once it has started is no easy matter and to do so
with humanity and compassion, as well as efficiency, is a very
major problem. There have been similar movements into Hong Kong
in the past and all have been brought under control by the action
/of the
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