RESTRICTED
C) CHINA WAS NOT IN THE LEAST WORRIED ABOUT THE PROSPECT OF AN OUTFLOW OF PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE. THE GAP CAUSED BY EMIGRATION OF DOCTORS COULD BE FILLED BY TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOCTORS IN CHINA
WHO WERE AS WELL QUALIFIED AS DOCTORS IN HONG KONG. THE EMIGRATION OF LAWYERS WOULD NOT BE A LOSS, BECAUSE EVEN IF THEY STAYED THEY
WOULD HAVE TO LEARN THINGS OVER AGAIN AFTER 1997.
D) ALTHOUGH THE SOCIAL AND LEGAL SYSTEMS IN HONG KONG WOULD REMAIN UNCHANGED, THE CRIMINAL LAW WOULD HAVE TO BE AMENDED, NOTABLY TO REINTRODUCE THE DEATH PENALTY.
3. IN THE REGULAR QUOTE CHINESE OPINION UNQUOTE COLUMN IN THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE HONG KONG STANDARD, MR. CHANG KUO-SIN (A NOTED CHINA WATCHER, A FORMER UPI CORRESPONDENT IN CHINA AND A MEMBER OF STAFF OF THE BAPTIST COLLEGE) SAID THAT, FOR CHINESE POLI- TICIANS, OBJECTIVE AND INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM DID NOT AND COULD NOT EXIST. IN HIS EXPERIENCE THIS APPLIED ALMOST AS MUCH TO THE
NATIONALISTS AS TO THE COMMUNISTS. IT WAS A SAD COMMENTARY ON
CHINA AND AN INDICTEMENT OF HER RULERS THAT HE HAD HAD TO COME
TO A COLONY TO FIND PRESS FREEDOM.
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