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in this paper is the one we believe best able to serve
our interests but it will be evident that it offers
no easy solutions to a multi-dimensional problem. all, it cannot provide a ready answer to critics who,
out of a variety of motives from the purely idealistic to resentment at Hong Kong's export successes (and not
excluding a desire to advocate one or other side in the ideological differences between Peking and Moscow),
seek to pressure Her Majesty's Government to move
faster than the problem allows. It will remain as necessary strongly to support the Hong Kong case and to counter false allegations about its Government as in the past; but obviously our ability to do so will depend upon the degree to which the reforms suggested in this paper are implemented there.
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