objectives for the visit should be:
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- to secure provision for a larger number of
directly elected seats in 1997 than the 18 out of 60
currently envisaged;
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to persuade the Chinese to make provision for
further development after 1997: the current proposal is
that there should be no further changes for 10 years
after 1997;
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to secure improvements in the way in which the
Grand Electoral College is chosen, if, as is now
envisaged, such a body is to be part part of the
legislature, so as to ensure that it is a genuinely
representative body.
to achieve improvements in the procedure for
electing the Chief Executive, so as to ensure that he
emerges in a genuinely democratic way.
If the Governor is to make any progress in achieving
these objectives, he will need to play his hand
carefully. The omens are generally not good: the current
mood of the Chinese leadership is one of nervousness and
suspicion and the demonstrations in Hong Kong on 1
January will have aggravated this. On the other hand,
the New China News Agency in Hong Kong have told the
Acting Political Adviser, on instructions from Peking,
that when the Governor is in Peking the Chinese will be