英外交大臣: 香港独立 '不是一个现实的选择'

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BBC Chinese, Apr 8, 2016
http://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/china/2016/04/160408_uk_hk_visit
("英国外交大臣菲利普·哈蒙德（Philip Hammond）星期五（4月8日） * * * 在香港接受了BBC在香港记者刘琳的专访")

(2) David Tweed, Keep Hong Kong Autonomy 'Way Into Future.'


Quote:

"Hammond told reporters Friday

"Asked if the system [One Country, Two Systems -- at least the system in Hong Kong, if not that in mainland China] should endure beyond 2047, when the agreement [between China and UK] expires, Hammond replied, 'far into the future.'

My comment:
(a) David Tweed
(i) First of all, tweed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweed
(may refer to: "tweed (cloth), a woolen fabric")
(ii) But as the last name, it has another source.

The Northern English and Scottish surname Tweed meant "someone living on the banks of the river Tweed, which flows between northeastern England and southeastern Scotland, and bears a British name of uncertain meaning."  
Dictionary of American Family Names, by Oxford University Press.

* River Tweed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Tweed

(b) The Chinese report of BBC -- (1), that is -- may be exclusive 专访. Yet BBC does not publish it in English. Moreover, it seems that Mr Hammond is talking to everybody about the same theme.