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KOWTOWING TO CHINESE?

It is a fact of Hong Kong's geography, history and politics that in 1997 it will become a Special Administrative Region of China. Its future is inevitably closely bound up with the mainland.

This does not mean we kowtow to Chinese. It means we endeavour to secure best possible future

for Hong Kong.

That is whole basis on which Joint

Declaration was signed.