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At this point my official dealings with Peking

strains of

drew to an end. Though I did not know it at the time, we were

also coming to the end of an era, which might be called that

of Sino-British cooperation over Hong Kong. We were about

to move into a new phase, where the

accommodation, the impatience with Chinese intransigence

and a greater assertiveness on the part of Hong Kong were

all to erupt in a policy of effective, if not altogether

intended, confrontation.

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