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TO IMMEDIATE GOVERNOR HONG KONG
TELEGRAM NUMBER HK 1048 OF 19 SEPTEMBER.
EASEY'S LEAFLET.
988
101A)
FURTHER TO MY TELEGRAM NUMBER HK (1044) I HAVE NOW READ THE PAMPHLET, WHICH IS HEADED QUOTE DUCKING RESPONSIBILITY - BRITAIN AND HONG KONG IN THE EIGHTIES UNQUOTE. AS EASEY SUGGESTED, IT IS VERY MUCH A RE-HASH OF PREVIOUS MATERIAL AND VERY SIMILAR TO HIS THESIS WHICH WAS PUBLISHED IN THE SEVENTIES
BI-WEEKLY. THE NEW ELEMENT IS THE CHAPTER ON IMMIGRATION AND
NATIONALITY WHICH MAKES MUCH OF THE IDEA THAT HONG KONG CHINESE
WILL BE IN A HOPELESS POSITION AFTER THE REVERSION OF HONG KONG
TO CHINA, WHICH IS THE THEME OF HIS MAIN ESSAY.
2.
HE SUMMARISES THE PAMPHLET AS FOLLOWS:
(A) THE LEASE PROBLEM CANNOT AND WILL NOT BE SOLVED. IT IS
INSOLUBLE.
(B) THE CONSEQUENCE OF THIS IS THAT BY ABOUT 1982, WITH
FAILURE TO GO AHEAD WITH A SECOND AIRPORT SIGNALLING THIS
FACT TO ALL, THERE WILL BEGIN A CAPITAL FLIGHT OUT OF HONG
KONG, AND THAT, IN TURN, WILL LEAD TO UNEMPLOYMENT, STEEP RISE IN CRIME, RIOTS AND, FIANLLY, THE ENTIRE BREAKDOWN OF
ORGANISED LIFE IN THE COLONY.
(C) VIEWING THIS AS AN INESCAPABLE SCENARIO, THE BRITISH
AND CHINESE GOVERNMENT HAVE ALREADY TAKEN THE ONLY DECISION
OPEN TO THEM - AGREE ON A DATE FOR THE RESUMPTION OF HONG KONG
BY CHINA. A DATE HAS ALREADY BEEN SET.
(D) VARIOUS KINDS OF DEALS CAN BE MADE OVER ASSETS,
COMPENSATION ETC. BUT BOTH SIDES WILL HAVE A VERY STRONG
INTEREST IN THREE COMMON APPROACHES TO THIS RESUMPTION.
THEY ARE:-
(1) BOTH SIDES WILL BE VERY SECRETIVE UNTIL THE LAST
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