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20. The choice is therefore clear. It is between reversion of Hong Kong to China under agreed, legally binding international

arrangements or reversion to China without such arrangements.

is not

This

a choice which HMG have wished to impose on the people of

Hong Kong. It is a choice imposed by the facts of Hong Kong's

history.

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