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KIRSTY WARK:
Well nowhere are the events in China being watched more closely than in Hong Kong, the colony which reverts to Chinese control in eight years time. There's been anger and shock at the massacre in Peking. Share values dropped by almost 20% this morning in the Hong Kong stock exchange and the Governor's been asked to help get Hong Kong British subjects stranded in Peking out safely. The two Hong Kong airlines have been asked to provide planes for an evacuation and many in the colony are now demanding an end to negotiations with the Chinese over Hong kong's future.
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EDDIE BOTSIU:
Under the terms of the 1984 Sino-British agreement on the future of Hong Kong, China gain sovereignty over the colony in 1997. The declaration attempts to secure the future security and stability of the island and aims to provide a means by which the existing capitalist system can continue under communist rule. But the confidence Hong Kong's 6 million inhabitants may have had
One in the treaty has been undermined by the weekend's events. expert said that if the Chinese were prepared to shoot their own! people how would they deal with those who'd fled to Hong Kong. They've appealed to the British Government to suspend the
agreement.
SIR GEOFFREY HOWE MP:
At this stage, had it not been for these awful events, work was still going on on translating the agreement into the basic law of the Chinese constitution and that has been put on ice
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