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inhibited from developing representative institutions by the danger that any politics in Hong Kong would be the politics of the two Chinas and that a determined communist minority in a generally apathetic electorate would engineer control of such institutions. There is a widespread awareness of these problems, both within andoutside Hong Kong; but the form of government prescribed for this thriving and progressive community does stand out as a startling anomaly in our post-war record of colonial administration. There is at present no widespread demand for constitutional changes, most recognising the dangers and difficulties of the situation;
and we have met little international criticism even in the United Nations (most of the criticism has been from within this country).
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