WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1988
PROVIDE
THE
SIR DAVID SAID
THE GREATEST
FOR
MUST
THEREFORE BE TO GOVERNMENT'S AIM
OF THE CONTINUITY
SYSTEM OF POSSIBLE REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT BEFORE AND AFTER THE TRANSFER OF GOVERNMENT: IT AT PRESENT A SYSTEM WHICH ENABLED THE HIGH DEGREE OF AUTONOMY THAT
WITH THE ENJOYED TO BE CONTINUED UP TO AND BEYOND 1997 IN ACCORDANCE JOINT DECLARATION.
MUST RUN
누구
WE DO BETWEEN NOW AND 1997
HIGH DEGREE OF AUTONOMY, HE
"CERTAINLY, NOTHING COUNTER TO THE NEED TO MAINTAIN THAT SAID.
THAT A SUBSTANTIAL MAJORITY OF AS ENTHUSIASTIC SUPPORTERS
SIR DAVID SAID IT WAS CLEAR HONG KONG PEOPLE WOULD REGARD THEMSELVES OF THE DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT.
"INDEED I WOULD COUNT MYSELF AMONGST THEM. BUT
OF MOVING TOO FAR TOO WESTERN STYLE DEMOCRACY,
"THIS MAY
BE
FAST
"
ALONG A HE SAID.
DIFFICULT
FOR
MANY ARE WARY PATH TOWARDS A FULLY-FLEDGED
TO
SOME COMMENTATORS
ACCEPT,
OF
WESTERN STYLE PARTICULARLY WHEN THEY COME FROM COUNTRIES WHERE A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT IS NATURALLY ASSUMED TO BE THE IDEAL SYSTEM.
DIRECT
HONG KONG WHO IS "SO MUCH SO, THAT IN THEIR EYES, ANYONE IN
ELECTIONS MUST BE EITHER CRYING NOT
OUT
IMMEDIATE FOR MO" | VATED BY SELF-INTEREST OR SIMPLY ANXIOUS NOT TO DISPLEASE CHINA.
KONG HAD SIR DAVID SAID THE FACT WAS THAT MANY PEOPLE IN HONG
EXPERIENCE HERE AND ON A · IRM, REAL CONVICTION, BASED ON THEIR OWN
CHANGE IN HONG WHAT THEY HAD SEEN IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, AND THAT KONG'S POLITICAL SYSTEM SHOULD BE EVOLUTIONARY.
HAD SERVED THE THE MOULD AS
ΤΟ
THEY FELT THAT THE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT WHICH COMMUNITY SO WELL. SHOULD NOT BE CHANGED SIMPLY TO FIT INTO
SYSTEM, WITHOUT ANY QUESTION OF A WESTERN STYLE DEMOCRATIC WHETHER IT WAS NECESSARILY THE BEST SOLUTION FOR HONG KONG.
PROGRESS
THE COMMUNITY, THE GOVERNMENT "IN KEEPING WITH THIS MOOD IN HAS FOR MANY YEARS PREACHED A GOSPEL OF CAUTIOUS, STEADY ALL ITS POLICY-MAKING; FINANCIAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL, SAID.
IN
HE
HEADLINE, BUT IT
"THAT GOSPEL MAY NOT HAVE THE DRAMA OF GOOD HAS WORKED. IT HAS ENABLED HONG KONG TO CONTINUE TO BE SUCCESSFUL EVEN DURING PERIODS WHEN OTHER TERRITORIES FLOUNDERED.
"ABOVE ALL, IT HAS ENABLED THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG TO SHARE OUR CONTINUING PROSPERITY.
IN
SIR DAVID SAID THAT FOR MANY YEARS,
COMMITTED TO THE
DEVELOPMENT
OF
A
MORK
REPRESENTATIVE
THE GOVERNMENT HAD BEEN
SYSTEM
OF
GOVERNMENT.
"IN SHAPING