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Turning to who would be the 'HK people to govern HK', Deng

Xiaoping said, "Whosoever do not oppose to China's recovery of sovereignty over HK are 'HK people', regardless of whether they are Chinese or foreigners. They will be qualified to 'govern HK' in the future. We have guaranted that Hong Kong's systems will remain unchanged, haven't we? From 1997 onward, HK will of course be governed by HK People."

90's, viz. unification

He said China had a

Deng repeated the three major tasks in the

of China, anti-hegemonism and the four modernisations.

history of 5,000 years, but in fact it went further back. Archaeological finds from Si'an proved that Chinese history dated as far back as 6,000 years ago. Yet, China was not united until 1949. Even then unification was not complete

as the issues of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Nansha Qundao (the Spratly Islands) remained unsolved. The last issue being too complicated, would be considered

separately. The solution of the Diaoyu Island issue, as he had said before,

'would be left to posterity', as the next generation would be more intelligent

than they were.

Outer

At the Sino-Soviet border, Chinese territory equivalent to thousands

of Hong Kong in area was occupied by the U.S.S.R. The Sino-Soviet issue was

a border dispute involving 1.5 million square kilometres of land.

Mongolia was given away by Chiang Kai-shek with his own hands.

reached at that time specified that no foreign country could station their

troops in Cuter Mongolia. But at present one million Soviet troops were being

stationed there. One-third of the Soviet missiles

The agreement.

aimed at China while

two-thirds were directed at the West. Sino-Soviet talks would involve more

than 1.5 square kilometres of land.