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volume of antagonistic private, then public, statements. Their concern centred on early direct elections: argued that their Basic Law should not be pre-empted. Privately, they suspected a British plot to preserve influence after 1997. Developments in China in late 1986, leading to the fall of HU Yaobang, made them even more sensitive. An unpromising background to the 1987 review (paragraphs 25-33).
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