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protect tenants: just in the period 1962-66 more than one-fifth of the metropolitan population was compulsorily evicted from their dwelling-places (Keith Hopkins, "Preface", in Hopkins, Hong Kong, p. xv).
Owen, "Economic Policy” in Hopkins, Hong Kong, p. 179.
Newsweek, 24 January 1972; for an attempt to assess the Hong Kong-U.K. relationship, see Halliday, "Hong Kong: The Economy", pp. 43-45.
Anon., "Overseas sterling balances 1963-1973", Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin, Vol. 14, No. 2 (June 1974), pp. 162ff. has some useful information, but does not give exact figures for Hong Kong; the figures for the "Far East” on p. 173 can presumably be largely accounted for by Hong Kong and Brunei. In December 1973 the Sunday Times reported that Hong Kong had been selling a lot of sterling in recent weeks. "This startling and unexpected threat to the pound," as the Sunday Times, called it, produced a new agreement much more favourable to Hong Kong. This selling, it went on, “represents a major rift between the UK and the Crown colony" (Sunday Times, December 16, 1973). See the Times, March 16, 1973, and the Observer, March 18, 1973. Financial Times, April 25, 1973; Newsweek, January 22, 1973.
Much more could be said on the Hong-Kong-Middle East relationship, a subject which urgently needs exploring.
As of July 1974, discussions were under way in the EEC to relax Hong Kong's exclusion at least as far as footwear is concerned (FEER, July 8, 1974, p. 32). "... in this category I include not only the settlers but a whole import-export world, including the local staff of the great home-based companies and the colonial civil servants (at any rate the lower grades), not forgetting the agents and backers of these interest- groups in the parent country." (Arghiri Emmanuel, "White-Settler Colonialism and the Myth of Investment Imperialism", New Left Review, No. 73, May-June 1972, p. 38). Emmanuel, ibid.
By political asset is meant that Britain can "swop” the fact that it controls Hong Kong for other benefits for itself; the fact that both the U.S.A. and Japan are reaping huge profits in Hong Kong must be an important factor in British diplomacy.
See the Times, November 13, 1972 (“Mr. Powell arouses fears in Hongkong”): “The Government is refusing to provide local journalists with more than a bare minimum of information about the status of British subjects born or naturalised in the colony for fear of stirring up a political crisis."
Commentator, "Hong Kong is Chinese Territory", Renmin Ribao, 20 August 1967; text here as given in Jerome Alan Cohen and Hungdah Chiu, People's China and International Law: A Documentary Study (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1974), Vol. 1, pp. 382-3. Full text in Appendix I below.
Renmin Ribao, editorial, 8 March 1963; fuller extract in Appendix I below.
Peking Review, No. 27, 1967, p. 25.
Letter dated March 8 1972 (UN. Document A/AC.109/396). Text in full in Appendix I. As is clear from a reading of the full text, it is not that China is quibbling over whether Hong Kong is actually in a colonial situation, in the sense that it is occupied by the British. Rather, it is that the UN Committee on Decolonisation concerns itself with the independence of colonies, whereas China is referring to a different process, the restoration of part of its territory a purely internal matter.
There is a good discussion of this and other issues in Gary Catron, "Hong Kong and Chinese Foreign Policy, 1955-60”, China Quarterly, No. 51 (July-September 1972), pp.407-409.
New China News Agency release, 10 September 1956, cited in Catron, "Hong Kong and Chinese Foreign Policy”, p. 415. In January 1963 China made a protest against demolition of premises in Kowloon City specifically on the grounds that Kowloon City (which re- mained a Chinese enclave under the original lease) was Chinese, in the sense of not being part of Hong Kong “colony”. See New China News Agency statement of January 17, 1963 in Cohen and Chiu, op.cit., Vol. 1, p. 377.
Catron, "Hong Kong and Chinese Foreign Policy", p. 424.
Hopkins, Public Housing Policy in Hong Kong, p. 2, citing Hambro, “The Problem of Chinese Refugees in Hong Kong".
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See the Financial Times, April 13, 1973. Economist, April 28, 1973.
Quoted in the Times, November 3, 1972.
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