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1. Sir Murray MacLehose's report of his first complete year
in Hong Kong is an admirable account of a successful and
dynamic period of administration.
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2. Hong Kong has three main problems: its relations with
China; the adaptation of its colonial administration to a
growing and powerful economic society in Hong Kong; and the
involvement of its unenfranchised people in that society.
These problems are inescapable, and the first is largely
outside Hong Kong's control.
arrival has coincided with a period when relations with China
have eased, and when the continuing economic boom in Hong Kong
has made development possible without having to resort to
Fortunately Sir Murray MacLehose's
high taxation or deficit financing.
3. Sir Murray regards the improvement of relations with
China as cyclical rather than linear. He therefore concludes
that his Government must be a government in a hurry. His
conclusions about Chinese policy may or may not be correct.
But he is being proved right in his judgement that this is the
time to speed up the development of Hong Kong into a place
where the largely Chinese inhabitants wish to live, work and
belong.
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