Two countries, one system
China is fully absorbing Hong Kong, and there's not much we can or will do about it.
Prime Minister John Major, seeking to dispel the notion that Britain’s role in Hong Kong is over, gave an unequivocal pledge today to hold China to its commitments after it recovers the colony next year.
``Hong Kong will never have to walk alone,″ he promised. If China breached the 1984 treaty it signed with Britain on the handover of Hong Kong, ``we would mobilize the international community and pursue every legal and other avenue available to us,″ he said in a speech to Hong Kong business leaders.
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Major gave a tart response to a questioner asking ``how on earth can you sleep comfortably at night″ handing 6 million people over to a Chinese government many of them detest.
He replied that Britain had no choice because its 99-year lease on the territory expires on June 30, 1997. ``I don’t like it any more than you like it. But I have to obey the law,″ he said.
Major extolled Hong Kong’s legal system, democracy and civil rights, and said Britain would continue to resist Ch…
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