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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