Subject: Re: TIME article on milit

From: [email-masked] (Kenneth C. Mitchell)
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 1994 05:59:14 GMT

Kaa Byington ([email-masked]) wrote:
:  
: >Maybe Sherwood's concerns won't seem so absurd.
:  
: Well, they're still pretty absurd.  Hong Kong is (now) a
: city-state with a population of about 6 million with a police force
: appropriate to its size, say three or four thousand at most on active duty.
:  How many FORMER Royal Hong Kong police officers do you suppose there
: are who are interested enough to come here?  Hong Kong has a per capita
: income almost equal to the US, a longer life span, better medical care,  no
: unemployment, a booming economy--it's a good place to live. 

If that's so, then why are Hong Kong Chinese scrambling to get out?  I'll 
explain; in 1997, the place will revert to the Communist People's 
Republic of China, and absolutely NOBODY believes that the PRC will keep 
their promises about respecting Hong Kong's semi-democratic institutions 
or free-market economy.

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