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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1993
MR JAMES TIEN:
CHINA,
OR YOUR
ON
GOVERNOR, IN YOUR ADDRESS TO US YESTERDAY, STRESSED HEAVILY ON OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH IMPORTANCE OF THAT. HOWEVER, YOU ALSO HIGHLIGHTED TO US, NEGATIVE SIDE OF THAT RELATIONSHIP, YOU SEE THE AIRPORT RAILROAD, CT9, JLG'S WORK COMING TO A HALT. SIDE, YOU DID RELATIONSHIPS,
YOU
(THE) THE PROBLEM WITH OUR
ON THE MENTION THINGS ABOUT THE BREADTH
POSITIVE AND DEPTH OUR BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH CHINA, AND
OF OUR SERVICE RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM.
OUR CIVIL BUT PERSONALLY, GOVERNOR, I FEEL MOST IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIP WITH CHINA IS PROBABLY THAT OF YOU,
THE GOVERNOR, AS
THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF HONG KONG. GOVERNOR,
SIR, PLEASE TELL US, WHAT CAN YOU DO, OR WHAT WILL YOU DO, TO IMPROVE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH CHINA IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS TO SMOOTH TRANSITION FOR US AFTER 1997?
WILL YOU
YOUR ENSURE A
EVER
A
THE GOVERNOR:
I HAVE NO DIFFICULTY HAVING A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH CHINA AND CHINESE OFFICIALS. IN NEGOTIATED
A PREVIOUS AT CONSIDERABLE
INCARNATION I LENGTH, WHAT I CONCESSIONAL FINANCING AGREEMENT THAT THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT HAD
THINK WAS THE LARGEST CONCLUDED WITH ANYBODY. I CONCLUDED THAT AGREEMENT, THAT NEGOTIATION, WITH CHINA. IT WAS PRETTY BRUISING, BUT AT THE END OF ACHIEVED A SATISFACTORY SOLUTION, ALBEIT ONE WHICH SOMETIMES MADE
THE DAY WE FEEL AS THOUGH CHINA WAS GIVING THE UNITED KINGDOM THE
ME THAN THE OTHER WAY ROUND.
MONEY RATHER SO I HAVE NO DIFFICULTY IN ESTABLISHING GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH CHINESE OFFICIALS AND I WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE TO HAVE THAT. BUT IF THE ONLY WAY IN WHICH, AS EXECUTIVE OF HONG KONG CAN HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH CHINA AT
AS IT WERE, THE CHIEF MOMENT IS BY NOT STANDING UP FOR HONG KONG, THEN I DON'T
THE THAT IS A PRICE WHICH THE COMMUNITY WOULD WISH ME TO PAY.
THINK THAT THAT CHINESE OFFICIALS SHOULD RECOGNISE THAT IT IS
I THINK INTEREST AND IN CHINA'S INTEREST, IN THE INTEREST OF "ONE COUNTRY
IN HONG KONG'S SYSTEMS" TO HAVE A STRONG GOVERNMENT IN HONG KONG, TO HAVE A CHIEF EXECUTIVE WHO GIVES A STRONG LEAD, WHICH STANDS UP FOR THE PRINCIPLES OF THE JOINT DECLARATION.
AND TO HAVE A GOVERNMENT FACT THAT THAT HAS PROVOKED A LITTLE MORE CONTROVERSY THAN HAVE LIKED OVER THE LAST YEAR, DOES NOT MAKE ME DESPAIR OF THE AND LONGER TERM.
P
TWO STRONG
AND THE I WOULD MEDIUM
THE PAGES OF RECENT LITTERED WITH THE EXAMPLES OF LEADERS, OF POLITICIANS, OUTSIDE
POLITICAL HISTORY ARB WHO WERE DENOUNCED UP
CHINA, HILL AND DOWN TRANSMOGRIFIED,
DALE FOR LONG PERIODS BUT THROUGH A PROCESS OF HISTORY, WITHOUT DROPPING PRINCIPLES, INTO WHAT I THINK IS CALLED 'OLD FRIENDS OF CHINA'.
THEIR SPEAK OF MY OPTIMISM FOR THE FUTURE, AND I SUPPOSE I
AND I THAT IN IT BECAUSE I THINK IT WOULD BE GOOD FOR HONG
SHOULD INCLUDE REPEAT
I REPEAT AND I MEAN THESE WORDS VERY SINCERELY
KONG. BUT I BELIEVE THAT THE RIGHT WAY TO TRY TO CONSTRUCT A BETWEEN HONG KONG AND CHINA IS BY FAILING TO STAND UP FOR HONG KONG.
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DO NOT GOOD RELATIONSHIP
/DR HUANG CHEN-YA