ROUTINE
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FM LOS ANGELES
TO ROUTINE WASHINGTON
TELNO 21
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DEMONSTRATIONS IN PEKING
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MA YUZHEN, THE CHINESE CONSUL GENERAL IN LOS ANGELES
AT ONE TIME HEAD OF THE INFORMATION DEPARTMENT IN THE FOREIGN MINISTRY IN PEKING) SPOKE TO THE CONSUL 69 CORPS ASSOCIATION IN LOS ANGELES ON 23 MAY.
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THE EVENT HAD BEEN ARRANGED SOME TIME AGO. HE HAD NO OFFICIAL WORD ABOUT THE PRESENT SITUATION IN PEKING. HOWEVER HE THOUGHT THAT WHATEVER THE OUTCOAL THARS WAS BOUND TO BE SOME MOVEMENT TOWARDS A GREATER VOLVEMENT IN GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE. HE DID NOT THINK I HOULD BE MODELLED ON THE WESTERN FORM OF DEMOCRACY BECAUSE THERE WAS NO TRADITION TO SUPPORT THIS AND HE STRESSED THAT ONE-FIFTH OF THE POPULATION WERE ILLITERATE.
3. MR MAY SAID THE PRESENT AND PREVIOUS GOVERNMENTS MADE PROGRESS BUT HE THOUGHT THERE WAS SOME VALIDITY STUDENTS
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: UNABLE TO COMMENT ON THE POSITION Q: ZAMO ZIYANG BUT SAID HE HAD GREAT RESPEC
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ABOUT HONG KONG. HE SAID HONG KONG WAT PORTANT I INA AS ITS MAIN SOURCE OF INVESTMENT AN. EXCHANGE :O IT WAS IN THE PR ́S INTERES TO STAND 2 LO-CHINESE DECLARATION ON THE TURE OF THE TERRITOR. HE . 2 SAID THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PRC KNEW THE PEOP E, OF TA. WOULD BE WATCHING CLOSELY TO SEE HOW WELL THE AGREEMENT WAS HONOURED AFTER 1997. THIS COULD BE AN IMPORTANT FACTOR IN THE EVENTUAL REUNIFICATION OF TAIWAN WITH THE PRC.
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MR MA EMPHASIZED THAT HE HAS EXPRESSING PERSONAL OPINIONS. ONLY MEMBERS OF THE CONSULAR CORPS WERE PRESENT.
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