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In 1977, Legco member Lo Tak-shing, a Government appointee to the “Advisory Committee on Diversification” started to hatch a plan for the future of Hong Kong. Diversification of the Hong Kong economy would need to develop more land in the New Territories, which naturally made the land lease of the New Territories a point of concern
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Notes
- 1.
Wong Man-fong (1997) China’s Resumption of Sovereignty over Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, p. 10.
- 2.
Thatcher, M. (1993) The Downing Street Years, London: Haper Collins Publishers, p. 173.
- 3.
Ibid, p. 183.
- 4.
Ibid, p. 235.
- 5.
Deng Xiao Ping on “One Country, Two Systems”, (2004), Hong Kong: Joint Publishing Co., p. 1.
- 6.
Ibid, p. 1.
- 7.
Ibid, p. 3.
- 8.
Ibid, p. 3.
- 9.
Ibid.
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Jiang, S. (2017). Sovereignty: Between the Way of Humane and Hegemony. In: China’s Hong Kong. China Academic Library. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4187-7_6
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