Taking Hongkong for example, the shadow of 1997 is always there, and "although foreign businesses are quite optimistic about Hongkong's future, they don't want to 'put all their eggs in one basket,'" says John Chandler, managing director of ICI Taiwan, a British firm.
以香港來說，九七陰影總是存在的，「儘管我們外商對香港的前景相當樂觀，但是總要避免『把雞蛋放在一個籃子裡』」，英商卜內門企業在台負責人陳德樂指出。