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12 JUTE 1989
CHAIRMAN (COFT);
But in the meantime, if we could just keep our focus
on Beijing and what has happened there, it looks does it
not at the moment as though the People's Republic is
slipping into a new dark age of police repression and
violence, state organisation. What do you think, as the
days go by, this is doing to the map of political opinion
in Hong Kong, how is that developing in the light of what
We Dow see emerging out of the blood and mist of Beijing?
SIR DAVID VILSON:
Well the most striking thing to which people have
reacted was the earlier bloodshed and the indiscriminata
violence of Peking · They will continue to react to the
second stage of this, the suppression of dissent, the use
or abuse of State power.
It has had quite marked effect on political
opinion in Hong Kong. You will ramanbar, and the
Committee will remember I am sure, when you were in Hong
Kong that political views were very widely split and
diverse. As a result of the events recently in China,
there has been a coming together of political opinion in
Hong Kong, which is an event of great significance.
The two Councile, AMELCO, came together on what they
saw as being the most desirable pattern of progress
towards universal suffrage, the rate of progress they
wanted to see, both on the question of elections to the