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Mr President, the British colonial government did not leave behind a parliamentary democratic structure in Hong Kong but, rather, created the expectation that the People’s Republic of China would introduce that system over there. When Hong Kong was handed back to China, the formula of two systems in one country was devised. People laboured under the illusion that, for Hong Kong, this would mean that, unlike in the rest of China, a parliamentary democracy on the basis of universal suffrage and a multi-party system could exist. It was thought that it could thus be a trial area for future developments in the rest of China.
We now know what those two systems come down to: capitalism under the control of the governing party in the largest part of China, and capitalism without that control in Hong Kong. There is a lack of democracy in both cases. The situation in Hong Kong, where a small selected group has been given the responsibility of self-government, is of course preferable by far to the situation in Tibet, where violence, intimidation and re-education are the instruments employed by the central authority.
Although my group has not been among the signatories of the resolution, I am prepared to endorse it. Moreover, I should like to remind you that the Dalai Lama has already addressed this Parliament’s plenary."@en1
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