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it is that the majority of people in Hong Kong really want
terms of the timing and unfolding pattern of
democratization.
You have your views, which you stated very
clearly, not only here, but in many other places as well. There are other views about accepting democracy in principal, but questioning the pace at which it is introduced. There
are assessments, which may or may not be right, of what views
are said to be held up in Peking on this matter, and we get
different views on that. Can you just, say, give us your
assessment not merely of your own views which we know, but of why there are these different sets of voices, apparently
conflicting on this issue and how out of this there should
emerge a clearer and firmer view from Hong Kong itself, in
order to guide both those who are making the Basic Law,
namely the PRC and those who are giving an input to it and
- advising on it and seeking to shape it in the interests of
Hong Kong, namely the British Government and indeed the Hong
Kong people themselves.
MR MARTIN LEE: I am obliged for the question. Now first, you
cannot possibly expect 100% consensus on a controversial
issue such as this. People of course will tell different
things. Now I happen to believe that the great vast majority of the pes
of Hong Kong would prefer to have democracy, for the simple
reason that the great great majority of the Chinese people
living in Hong Kong are here because they have run away fro
a communist regime many years ago, or because they have been
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