【明報專訊】On 24 September 1982, then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (時任英國首相戴卓爾夫人), having met with the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping (中國領導人鄧小平) on Hong Kong's future, tripped and fell to the ground on her way out of the Great Hall of the People (人民大會堂) in Beijing (right). The incident turned out to be strangely prophetic (預言般的) of her setbacks in the Hong Kong talks.