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raising Hong Kong's long term future and "we did not do so", This could be seen as misleading.*

4.

The record shows that Deng responded to Lord MacLehose's

statement on the problem of leases in the New Territories by warning against any reference to the continuation of British administration,

adding that "by 1997 China might take over Hong Kong". This of

course does not amount to a categoric statement of China's intention

as claimed by Bowring. I have also looked at the records of Lord

MacLehose's meetings with the then Foreign Minister, Huang Hua, and

other leading Chinese, None of these support Bowring's version.

Thus the records confirm that there is no justification for

Bowring's allegation that the people of Hong Kong were deliberately

misled about China's intentions.

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