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being posted to Peking.

More recently played

а

role leading

in

with the negotiations

China

which led to the agreement whereby

colony

will be restored to China in 1997, but

with the

special

status

for guaranteed

fifty

A

bag with

knighthood is automatically conferred

the appointment as Governor. On the lin

Kong, I

to Hong

Deputy

asked Philip Bowring (phonet.

Editor of the Far Eastern Economic Revie

whether

Sir

David Wilson was the man the Co

would

itself have chosen.

PHILIP BOWRING:

Partly yes and partly no.

Of

$

well

course,

known here. The fact that he

is fer

r with

China and has been deeply

negotiations for quite a long time

to some extent as a plus. On the other

are

negative aspects to that as we.

d there

involve

in

the

is seem

perhaps

seen too much as wanting to please Chi

too much sort of Britain's man in tryinz

perhaps

achieve

a smooth transfer of

power rather than

Someone