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We obviously have particular reasons for looking with great interest at Mr Deng's career because it was his concept of 'one country, two systems' which provided the framework for Hong Kong's future after 1997; it provided the framework for the guarantees that Hong Kong's way of life would continue the same after 1997.
So I suppose the simple answer to your question is that the world will remember Mr Deng most because of his contribution to the opening up of China's economy. And Hong Kong will remember him most not only for that reason but also because of the concept of 'one country, two systems'.
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Governor: I said in my speech to the Australian Chamber of Commerce that I thought it was unwise to speculate about the precise implications of Mr Deng's death. What I can more usefully do is to describe what Hong Kong is today - a strong and prosperous and robust city and society well able to take any events in its stride. The outlines of the strategy for Hong Kong have been set out for many years in the Joint Declaration and the Basic Law and I don't think that should be changed.
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Governor: I imagine that it was part of Mr Deng's wisdom, in enunciating the concept of 'one country, two systems', to try to ensure that Hong Kong was insulated from events elsewhere and that Hong Kong was able to preserve its way of life and its system while being part, in sovereignty terms, of China. It is, I think everybody concedes, a concept both imaginative and difficult to implement, and the challenge for the years ahead will be to ensure, in the interests of the people of Hong Kong, that it is implemented successfully.
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Governor: I think the things they could do to give greater confidence in Hong Kong, not least, judging by recent polls, are not related to Mr Deng's death but are related to decisions taken recently about the protection of human rights and about the provisional legislature. I think that people are anxious, in Hong Kong, about their liberties in the future, about their way of life and the rule of law in the future. Those worries are not exaggerated. You only have to see, for example, what the leaders of the legal profession have said. So I think that the reassurance should best come by Chinese officials changing the view they have taken of those issues and by them showing that they trust Hong Kong and are prepared to stand back and let Hong Kong get on with its own life peacefully and with the success and stability that we have seen in recent
years.