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has largely invalidated, in my mind,
in my mind, your own judgement about
what is right for the people of Hong Kong.
MR MARTIN LEE: Well, I'm not accusing the British Government
or the long Kong Government for deliberately misleading the
people of Hong Kong
You see, what they did was, they
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NO.
promised us democracy in the best of faith - they really
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but for the strong
wanted to give it to us, I believe that,
objections from China, and then, and then, that is the pity,
they decided that they would not confront with China. And
thereafter they allowed themselves to be led by the nose by the
Chinese for the future development of democracy in Hong Kong,
because the public position now taken by the British
Government, and that is a matter of public record, that the
future development of democracy in Hong Kong will be pursuant
to the Basic Law. In other words, whatever the Basic Law
says, the British will try to converge with it. In other
words, it is for the Chinese to decide what to do.
If you look at Clause 4 of the Joint
Declaration it is for the British to run this Territory until
30th June 1997. So, I would have thought that at least there
is an equally strong case to say therefore, let the British
do what it considers to be right and let China converge
because you are here first. But, this is not the point.
May I finish by quoting one line from
Mr. Richard Luce, the then Minister responsible for Hong
On 5th December 1984 in your debate on Hong Kong he
Kong.
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