TNAG-1437-FCO40-1921-Constitutional-development-in-Hong-Kong-1986 — Page 105

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Could you repeat? I'm sorry.

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Is it that you simply wait and see

how the Basic Law will come out, and then make the political development to follow its footsteps closely, as the way of guarantee

of convergence?

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Well, I do think I answered that

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question about three-quarters-of-an-hour ago.

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It is the Hong Kong people who are being consulted on the Basic Law, and it is the Hong Kong people who are being consulted about the 1987 Review.

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same group of people. Same Hong Kong people.

Same group.

It is the

So there

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will be a convergence.

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That wasn't what you just said a

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moment ago, is it?

You said that China would also be consulted.

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No, I didn't

say that. No, I didn't

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use the word consulted.

I did not use that word.

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So, there is one thing you cannot have a say over it, and the other thing you can have say over it,

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you are praying that the people will like the two things in the same case, so that they will naturally converge with each other?

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be this convergence.

I think so, yes. I think there will

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So, you are praying.

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I think there will be this convergence.

Well, that's pinning your hopes on a

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very slim chance.

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No, it isn't... I don't think 'it is.

a slim chance, because the Hong Kong people are common to both equations

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making either.

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