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Hong Kong public opinion and press generally support White Paper decisions. But minority radicals and vested interests have reacted badly. The foreign press, especially in Britain, has been hostile

reflecting effective lobbying by radicals and failure to see why Westminster system not necessarily right for Hong Kong (paragraphs 20-22).

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Much work will be needed in the 1990s to bring Hong Kong into line with the post-1997 political system to be set out in the Basic Law. Will need care and imagination. Crucial question is how to provide workable link between the executive and the legislature, without present arrangement for officials and appointed members in LegCo (paragraphs 22-27).

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