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Many people will tell us - and often do - that none of this is as effective in promoting the rights of the citizen as democratic self-government but it is commonly held that the Chinese government will accept the status of Hong Kong only for as long as there are no constitutional development which might be interpreted as pointing towards self-government … You will therefore not find in government policy any intention to promote sophisticated western democratic institutions. We have to get our public participation in other ways
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