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PS/NO 10
HONG KONG
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We have been through a difficult period since last June in our
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Basic Law, the Chinese Government are showing more willingness to
cooperate but there are still potential problems ahead, not least of
which is China's attitude to our nationality package and the draft
Bill of Rights.
As Dr Mahathir will be aware we are concerned about the exodus
of talented people from Hong Kong. The aim of the British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill is to help stem this outflow. We have
lobbied our friends in the international community to take measures
similar in their objective to our own package. Predictably, given
their sensitivities on the ethnic mix in the country, the Malaysians
told our High Commission in Kuala Lumpur that they could not help.
Sir Nicholas Fairbairn MP, however, mentioned to the Lord Presiden:
in January that Dr Mahathir had said to him that Malaysia was only too willing to "take any Hong Kong Chinese who were wanting a home'. The Prize Minister might make a tentantive enquiry to see if there is any mileage in pursuing this with the Malaysian Government, and whether what Dr Mahathir has in mind is something similar to the
permanent resident scheme implemented by Singapore.
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