10
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1988
OF HONG TRULY DEMOCRATIC YEARS FROM 1997
AS FOR CHINA, WHAT IT COULD DO WAS TO GIVE THE PEOPLE
WHICH MUST
A KONG A GOOD BASIC LAW,
PROVIDE FOR FRAMEWORK OF GOVERNMENT FOR THE ENTIRE PERIOD OF 50 TO 2047.
WITH SUCH A BASIC LAW, BRITAIN COULD IMMEDIATELY BY ESTABLISHING A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT EVEN BEFORE 1997.
IMPLEMENT
IT
PEOPLE WOULD BE ELECTED TO AND, IN THIS WAY THE RIGHT
THAT THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, SO AS TO ENSURE
GOVERNMENT WOULD LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL EVEN BEFORE 1997 AND ACCOUNTABLE TO THE ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE JOINT DECLARATION.
THE
BE
IN
AND DONE NOW, EVEN MORE UNLESS ALL THESE THINGS WERE DONE, PEOPLE WOULD LEAVE HONG KONG IN THE NEAR FUTURE, HE ADDED.
DON'T EQUATE EMIGRATION WITH BRAIN DRAIN
* * *
EMIGRATION MUST NOT BE
EQUATED BLINDLY
WITH A BRAIN DRAIN BECAUSE TO DO SO COULD CREATE THE WRONG IMPRESSION THAT ONLY THOSE WHO ARE NOT, EMIGRATE ARE THE BRAINS AND THAT THOSE WHO CHOOSE TO STAY DR THE HON DANIEL TSE TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
KONG HAS LOST SOME
PEOPLE "I DON'T DOUBT THAT HONG
BRAINY
IS A THROUGH EMIGRATION, BUT I CANNOT SAY THAT EVERYONE WHO HAS LEFT
WHO HAS LEFT IS SURE THAT EVERYONE I AM NOT EVEN BRAIN, AND NECESSARILY A LOSS TO HONG KONG, DR TSE SAID IN THE POLICY DEBATE.
IT IN THAT THEY
RETAIN PEOPLE THEREFORE, AS MUCH AS WE WANTED TO FIND WAYS TO AND TO ATTRACT THOSE WHO HAD LEFT TO COME BACK, WE MUST NOT DO SUCH A WAY AS TO MAKE THOSE WHO WERE COMMITED TO STAY FEEL WERE INFERIOR TO THOSE WHO HAD LEFT, HE SUGGESTED.
WAYS то DR TSE AGREED THAT HONG KONG SHOULD FIND TALENTED PEOPLE WHO HAD LEFT HONG KONG BUT STILL CONSIDERED HOME TO FEEL WELCOME IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITY.
"WE SHOULD NOT TREAT THEM AS RENEGADES, BUT NEITHER GO OVERBOARD TO TREAT THEM AS PRIVILEGED OR SUPERIOR CLASS,
MAKE
THOSE IT THEIR
SHOULD WE HE SAID.
BACK OF
IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS, IF A PERSON WERE ATTRACTED TO COME
NO AMOUNT PRIVILEGES, PURELY ON
AND SPECIAL MATERIAL GAINS
HERE WHENEVER MATERIAL INCENTIVES WOULD BE ENOUGH TO KEEP THE PERSON ANYTHING SEEMED TO GO WRONG IN HONG KONG, HE SAID.
/THE LONG-TERM