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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