China intends to recover Hong Kong, official says

By Compiled From Wire Service Dispatches With Analysis From Mointor Correspondents Around The World; Edited By Anne Shutt

October 1, 1982

Peking

China said Thursday it would recover the whole of Hong Kong when conditions are ripe and that the 19th-century treaties under which Britain took over the colony were unacceptable.

The remarks were by a Foreign Ministry spokesman responding to comments on Hong Kong's future by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.