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surprisingly then, on Friday night he was very pro- British; very anxious to see Britain and China co-operating more; very keen to see exchange of students; particularly keen to have British know-how and investment in China. He told me that that day when visiting his old college of Pembroke, he had suggested to
to the President that he was prepared to put up a large sum of money as a Trust Fund to provide scholarships for Chinese students to come to Britain. He thought that as the Chinese gradually took their rightful place in the world it was important that they should do so from a base of understanding of social justice and a thorough knowledge of British law, which he thought the best the world had to offer. I confess myself somewhat surprised by this (to me) new approach to things British.
One further point: Mark Schreiber queried Dick Lee as to his vision of the future style of Government in Hong Kong after 1997: he asked whether Dick Lee thought the British Government could possibly participate in such an arrangement. Dick Lee said that this was a matter for discussion, that he hoped the British Government would be able to co-operate but that if this were not possible, he hoped the British commercial interests would see the good sense of some form of joint When Schreiber asked what manner of man
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he saw as being Chairman of the Governing Council - "a merchant, a politician, or what" - Dick Lee said that he had no firm ideas about the British Chairman when the British turn came but he thought that somebody like David LI would be a suitable sort of Chinese Chairman. And it was at this point that some of the goodwill and bonhomie disappeared "But it is certain that we will not allow those Opium sellers, Jardines, to grab everything!"
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