Walter Easey. Secretary: Hong Kong Research Project.
71 Balfour St. London. SE 17. UK. Tel. (01) 703 5275.
HONG KONG'S IMMEDIATE FUTURE
An assembly of facts: An alarming theory.
Sep. 2 1979.
I have a theory, based on facts, that suggests Hong Kong is due to revert
to China within a few years. It is a theory that has no support or adherents.
Indeed, it flies conspicuously against all the stated wisdom on the subject.
The problem is, I have assembled some facts that, at the very least, disprove most of the accepted wisdoms. Having done that (and I will do so, in detail below), then the field becomes open to new theories: one of which I will
set out in this article.
The point of writing this article is to get this theory discussed, criticised,
and if possible, proven false. I am in the odd position of seeing the implications of some facts (some of them old, some new, some hitherto
unavailable in Hong Kong all of them public, but, to my knowledge, never brought together in this form ), and seeing an unmistakelable and very unpleasant, indeed, shameful, conclusion. I do not want to believe in this
conclusion, and yet, until I am shown an error in logic or an alternative
explanation of these facts, I must accept the conclusion and point out the
implications for the people of Hong Kong. If I am wrong, there is no harm
done. Walter Easey will simply be seen as an alarmist, a poor analyst and
ultimately, a fool. No matter, this is a risk that anyone who takes on
the task of political prediction accepts. This possibility does not alarm
me,
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I can live with it. What does worry me is if I am right the implications
for the people of Hong Kong are tremendous and entail, at the very least,
a complete re-orientation in strategy for the left, a re-orientation that
ammounts to changing from a stategy for the left in Hong Kong, to a stategy
within China.
So, let us open the seminar and introduce our first speaker. He is the late
Right Honourable Richard Crossman, M.P., Privy Councillor and member (in various positions) of the Wilson Labour Government Cabinets of the
60's and 70's. He was a compulsive diarist and his diaries have now been published 'despite vigorous attempts at the highest level to have them
suppressed. This means that the speaker comes with the highest credentials, being (a) dead and (b) the subject of posthumous attempts at censorship by
entry a Prime Minister 2 sure sign that he has told the truth. His diary for
Wednesday May 29 1968 is as follows:
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