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- From: lyndon@Sol34.essex.ac.uk (Lee L C H)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
- Subject: Re: What do you think of Chris Patten
- Message-ID: <6556@sersun1.essex.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 22:30:32 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.172153@disun14.epfl.ch>
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- Reply-To: lyndon@essex.ac.uk (Lee L C H)
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- In article <1992Nov19.172153@disun14.epfl.ch> fung@disun14.epfl.ch (Yee Kay Fung) writes:
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- >Patten, the good or the bad guy? What do you think?
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- >Yee Kay Fung
- >Greetings from Switzerland
-
- *** The followings are just my PERSONAL feeling.
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- My impression of Patten is not as good as my friends in HK. Partly because when
- Tory was running the election campaign in March-April, Patten being the
- party's chairman, had made a lot of public speech. And during that time I
- was in England and personally run through the whole election. So I got some
- idea about him.
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- I feel that he is the one who would do something solely for political reasons.
- And other considerations secondary. So although he has won a lot of publicity
- in HK and quite a lot of hope from HK people by his constitutional reform
- package, I won't sing him a praise, however.
-
- In my opinion, he ties his political future to the HK. He is trying to do
- something in HK to earn a better reputation for the next election (may be in
- 1997!). I don't blame him for this, after all, it is his career.
-
- In my very pessimestic opinion, I don't think UK or PRC would do any good
- to HK and HK people. Both sides are trying to get most out of it - but
- different approach. UK may want to secure her influence in HK (at least 10
- more years) and make way for UK company for several years making profit.
- PRC would like to speed up her modernisation, based on HK's investment.
- PRC would like to see a pure enonomic-functional HK - unlimited source of
- fund, but the people there are not making any (political) trouble.
-
- However, HK people are smart enough not to believe any side. PRC has a
- "reputation" of breaking promises - so the 84 joint-agreement and basic law
- are just empty documents. Patten, in his reform package, does give HK people
- a chance to secure what they have - hence it is popular. I think Patten
- and HK people are of the relationship : mutual benefit if it works.
-
- Lyndon Lee
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