On Dangerous Ground

As Hong Kong prepares to be restored to China in 1997, powerful business interests brace for ramifications. London's Brigadier Charles Ferguson has learned of the existence of a copy of the mysterious Chungking Covenant, a document signed by Mao and Lord Mountbatten declaring that, in exchange for arms and assistance in the war against the Japanese, Mao would extend the Hong Kong Treaty by one hundred years if he came into power in China.--