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NOTES
1 G. B. Endacott, A History of Hong Kong (Oxford, rev. edn. 1973), p. 323.
* Mr Mike Mansfield, United States Ambassador in Tokyo, has indeed referred to the coming "Century of the Pacific".
* In a talk to Hong Kong university students, reported in the China Post of the day.
4 It was at about this time that Deng was credited with the saying: "I don't care whether a cat is black or white-so long as it catches mice”-frequently quoted as illustrating the "new pragmatism” in Chinese political thinking.
* The first visit to China by a Governor of Hong Kong since 1949.
"The party or delegation was reported to have included officials of the New China News Agency and the Bank of China, bodies which serve as unofficial channels of communication between Peking and Hong Kong; and the editors of leading left-wing newspapers.
* Also described as the Chinese Communist Party's chief spokesman on constitutional and legal matters. "British Conservative MPs visiting Hong Kong for the first time have been correspondingly surprised to find that large business enterprises are owned and managed by local communists.
A little publicised agreement between China and Portugal that followed this refusal had the effect of defining Macau as a "Chinese territory under Portuguese administration”.
1o N. J. Miners, The Government and Politics of Hong Kong (Oxford, rev. edn., 1977), pp. 8–14. "Two land transactions involving Chinese interests prompted speculation during the summer that the Hong Kong Government felt a need to “appease" the People's Republic. The first was the Government's decision to buy back from a Chinese property company a large tract of New Territories land plans for the development of which had run into difficulties. The second was the sale by private treaty in early August of a prime urban site to the Bank of China at what was regarded as a specially low “friendship” price; news of this sale was followed by an 80-point fall in the Hang Seng share prices index.
12 Signs in 1982 of a wish on the part of many students in Hong Kong to identify themselves with Chinese national sentiments included: (a) Public statements by student bodies echoing protests in China against the then proposed revison of Japanese history textbooks so as to modify the accounts of Japanese wartime "atrocities" overseas; and (b) An increased interest in Mandarin and Pin Yin language studies and in contacts with Canton University.
13 The impact of substantially higher fees on the many Hong Kong students in Britain was another cause of resentment; ways in which the increases might be lessened are being discussed in London and Hong Kong.
1A 65-point increase in the Hang Seng index on 5 October 1982 was attributed in part to unconfirmed reports that some banks were prepared to make such loans.
THE AUTHOR
D. K. Lewis is a freelance journalist who has worked on the editorial staffs of the Scotsman, the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian. He worked in Hong Kong from 1971 to 1980; first, as chief assistant editor of the regional weekly newspaper The Asian, and later (from 1973) employed by the Information Services Department of the Hong Kong government. He was the author of a widely distributed account of the Vietnamese Refugee Crisis as it impinged on Hong Kong in 1979.
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