Date
Statements by Chinese
Officials
5.1.86 (cont'd)
Constitutional Reforms (49)
Statements by Government News Comments/Editorials
Officials
Statements/Comments
by others
(International Affairs College president Prof Hocking Wong): HK would not see the emergence of party politics.
6.1.86
7.1.86
Communist Papers
(Sze Chusian, writing in Wen Wei Po): It would be useless to talk about democracy if it would scare away capital
Non-communist Papers
(HK Economic Journal): Willing or not, China would have to play the game of democratising HK, otherwise instability would arise and the West would also be given a
pretext to impose
sanction against HK.
People, however, should
not indulge in the search
of real democracy.
(Ming Pao): It was extremely inappropriate to introduce direct
elections in view of the
local circumstances. The
(report) (Source of Financial Daily): China had asked the HK Government through informal diplomatic