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institutions and companies must not try to interfere in Hong Kong's running or tilt the playing fields. Whilst only to be expected, it is encouraging that he has said so in such forthright terms.

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(c) China needs to remain socialist. There are at least

two references

on pages 4 and 15 to the need for China to remain socialist and stable if Hong Kong is to remain

prosperous. These comments presumably are thinly veiled warnings that the west should not try and precipitate in China what has happened recently in Eastern Europe and the

USSR.

(d) No mention of agreement on IPPAS. It is odd that, while Mr Lu flags up the shortly to be agreed Court of Final Appeal, he does not specifically flag up the agreement reached on IPPAS. He does talk about laws to protect investment from outside the SAR, on page 11, but fails to flag up this agreement. There is probably nothing sinister

he may have thought it was already old news. There is a useful reference to air services at the bottom

even if it is only a summary of the Basic Law

in this

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of page 13 provisions.

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