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What is your view on including pro-KMT rightwingers in the
Consultative Committee?
When the Drafting Committee met, it had already authorized the some 20 members in Hong Kong to consider the question of
the Consultative Committee's composition.
Is there a deadline for the setting up of the Consultative
Committee?
A: No, there is no deadline. People in Hong Kong have more views
to express and more time is needed for deliberation.
Hong Kong appears to have stabilized on the surface. In actual fact, it is not stable and people still lack confidence in the future. There is a saying that China is buoying up the market. That is to say, the market appears bullish mainly because China is
If it did not do so, the situation making an effort to buoy it up. would have been extremely precarious.
A :
No one can take the place of Hong Kong.
Q:
This is not what I mean. My point is that many people in Hong Kong are truly disappointed about China's doings during the past three decades and do not, therefore, have confidence in the future. They fear that once Hong Kong is hand-ed over to Beijing, its prosperity will vanish.
A :
If they do not want to believe, let them look at the facts! Hong Kong not experience great turbulences
→two years ago?
Did
These few
And did it not stabilize a great deal after the publication of the Joint Declaration? Since the 3rd plenum of the 11th Central Committee, great changes have taken place in China. years have seen the best of China's political and economic
If the situation development, and better changes are in store. is good in China, the situation in Hong Kong will not be unfavourable. Some people are still taking a wait-and-see attitude,
/ but their misgivings
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