TNAG-1844-FCO40-2619-House-of-Commons-Select-Committee-on-Foreign-Affairs-enquiry-1989 — Page 62

1 10

1

t

་་ཏྭཱ།

TRANSCRIPT C

HONG KONG SELACT COMMITTEE MEETING

22 KAR 89

20

FORBIGE SECRETARY (COFT).

And if you look at the cross-check of all those insights I

think you are getting a pretty accurate response.

CHAIRMAN,

Kr

Could we now turn briefly to our relations with the People's Republic of China and our discussions with the Chinese.

Temple-Horris.

MR TEMPLE-MORRIS:

If I could just, following what our Chairman has just said,

turn the Foreign Secretary around as it were to look at these

matters from the Chinese point of view bearing in wind his

discussions with them. And to start him off on this could I just

say that on one side of the argument when one looks at the Basic Law there is a tremendous amount in it which the Foreign Secretary has already intimated on occasion to us which gives every ground

for optimism. And indeed one could even say that the achievements

embodies in this are quite formidable for the Chinese to actually

lay out a Basic Law which has checks and balances and elections

and all sorts of things which are not exactly that visible in

Beljing.