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What about "worst case" scenario?

It is not sensible to speculate in any detail about such a hypothetical situation. In 1989 the then Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, told the Foreign Affairs Committee that if, against all our expectations, the worst were

to happen after 1997 the United Kingdom, with its special responsibility for Hong Kong, would have to respond to that.

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