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White Paper of November 1984 introduced indirectly elected membership (40%) to LegCo, and promised further review of political reform, including direct elections, in 1987. Other far-reaching Green Paper ideas were shelved, partly because of little public interest and partly because of the negotiations with the Chinese
over the future (paraagraphs 22-24).
6. Chinese paid little attention to the 1984 Green and White
Papers. In 1985, however, clear they were worried that reform was going too far too fast. Growing volume of antagonistic private,
then public, statements.
elections: they argued that their Basic Law should not be
pre-empted. Privately, they suspected a British plot to preserve influence after 1997. Developments in China in late 1986, leading to the fall of HU Yaobang, made them even more sensitive. unpromising background to the 1987 review (paragraphs 25-33).
Their concern centred on early direct
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