And will the Chinese government in fact allow Hong Kong the high degree autonomy which it has promised?"
The authors of the report are Sir William Goodhart, Q.C., of the United Kingdom, Chairman of the mission to Hong Kong; Y.M. Raja Aziz Addruse, former President of the Malaysian Bar Council; John Dowd, A.O, Q.C., former Attorney General of New South Wales; and Hans-Heiner Kühne, Law Professor at the University of Trier, Germany.
They carried out a mission to Hong Kong in June 1991. During the visit, they met with members of government, the legal profession, the press, the business community and human rights and political groups. However, they were unable to obtain any cooperation from anyone directly or indirectly representing China.
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