The Times, 12 October 1984, Special Report: Hong Kong (David Bonavia)
"The new agreement on the future of Hong Kong has been greeted with a variety of emotions as ranging from gloom to elation. Supporters of the agreement hail it as a master stroke of diplomacy, whilst its critics fear it will mean only a slow death for the 142-year old territory. Most, however, have agreed that it would have been difficult, if not impossible, to get a substantially better settlement out of China, especially since the expiry of the New Territories lease in 1997 would have made the rest of the place economically unviable".
The Daily Telegraph, 26 October 1984. David McKie, Not with a bay
but a whimper
(describing the debate on the Joint Declaration in the House of
Commons).
Mr Denis Healey set the tone, hailing it (the JD) as the most outstanding achievement of British diplomacy since Lord Carrington's
in Zimbabwe
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