24 MAY '89 23:42
FROM COL TECH RADIO
TRANSCRIPT K SELECT COMMITTER ON HONG KONG
24 MAY 1989
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MR RENTON (CONT>:
So although it is in effect an automatic right for the applicant and two further generations, it remains a discretionary right for generations beyond that.
one would
Obviously, as Mr Morris is saying to me,
normally expect people at that stage to acquire the nationality of the country where they were living.
does remain a backstop.
But it
CHAIRMAN:
Yes, but we have here a scene do we not where these people are reading in the Draft Basic Law, for instance, that non-Chinese are specifically prohibited from becoming Chief Executive or filling a number of top posts and there clearly is an atmosphere in which they feel that while
they may be allowed to stay it could be, in a sense,
sufferance because they are not of Chinese origin.
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So in that sense they do feel that denied a home of
last resort in the UK and denied a full citizenship
equivalent to that of their Chinese origin friends, they are definitely left in a rather exposed position are they
not?
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