TRADE COMMISSIONS AND HK SAR OFFICES SHOULD BE
ESTABLISHED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD TO RETAIN HONG
KONG'S STATUS AS AN INTERNATIONAL TRADING CITY:
TO FURTHER ENHANCE HONG KONG'S STATUS,
ORGANIZATIONS UNDER THE UNITED NATIONS SHOULD BE
INVITED TO SET UP OFFICES IN HONG KONG SAR:
HONG KONG ITSELF SHOULD BECOME A MEMBER OF THE
UNITED NATIONS EVEN UNDER THE AEGIS OF THE PRC:
HONG KONG'S RELATIONS WITH COUNTRIES WHICH DID
NOT HAVE DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH PRC MIGHT BE
AFFECTED AFTER 1997: AND
HONG KONG'S PRESENT LINK WITH BRITAIN AND THE
COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES, IN PARTICULAR IN THE
FIELDS OF CULTURE AND SPORTS, SHOULD BE
MAINTAINED.
SECTION XII DEFENCE AND SECURITY AND PUBLIC ORDER
4.44 THIS SECTION ATTRACTED CONSIDERABLE COMMENTS
WHICH CONCENTRATED ON THE FOLLOWING :
THE STATIONING OF CHINESE MILITARY FORCES IN
HK
4.45
THE POSSIBILITY OF CONSCRIPTION
CONTROL OVER ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION FROM CHINA
THERE WAS WIDE-SPREAD CONCERN ABOUT THE STATIONING OF CHINESE MILITARY FORCES IN HONG KONG. THE
LACK OF UNDERSTANDING OF THE DISCIPLINE AND ROLE OF THE CHINESE MILITARY FORCES, THE CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WHICH THEY WOULD BE MOBILIZED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEFENCE, THEIR
AUTHORITY AND CHAIN OF COMMAND AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH
THE HK SAR POLICE CAUSED ANXIETY. THE GENERAL VIEW WAS
THAT THE PRESENCE OF PLA TROOPS WOULD CREATE AN IMPRESSION
OF POSSIBLE IMPOSITION OF COMMUNISM AND MILITARY
INTERFERENCE IN CIVIL AND JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE
PRETEXT OF UPHOLDING NATIONAL SECURITY ALTHOUGH SOME
WELCOMED THE ARRANGEMENT PARTICULARLY AS THE CHINESE
MILITARY FORCES WOULD BE PROVIDED AT NO COST TO HONG KONG.
TO ALLAY THE FEAR, THE FOLLOWING SUGGESTIONS WERE PUT
FORWARD :
THE CHINESE TROOPS SHOULD BE STATIONED AWAY FROM
THE URBAN AREAS, SAY IN SHENZHEN:
THE TROOPS SHOULD ABIDE BY THE LAWS OF THE HK
SAR:
SECRET-38
/THE