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is worth asking whether we
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YOUR TELNO 3634: NCNA STATEMENT ON TOWN PLANNING CAMENDMENT)
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1. We are glad that Ehrman spoke robustly to Ji Shaoxiang.
NCNA statement not only displays an unwarranted departure from
the principle of non interference in Hong Kong's administration.
It also reveals a very shallow\understanding, on the NCNA's
part, of the issues,
2. As seen from here, if the Hong Kong Government were
accede to the demands by the Heung Yee Kuk for compensation,
either in the form of money or land, it is the Hong Kong
taxpayer, and ultimately the future Hong Kong SAR, who will be
the losers. Financial compensation would have to be funded by
increasing revenue, eg through higher taxation. And if the Hong
Kong Government offered the New Territories landowners
alternative plots of land, this would presumably mean less
income for the Land Fund. We imagine that neither of these
scenarios would be attractive ones for the Chinese.
Mr Paul
are ones for HKG. They
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The points in fora 2
let
alone the
at
the
compensation
2.
HUG
I imagine HUG
already. I
issue
are
barely
our business
will have looked care fully
would favour deleting para 2.
I too have fears about the last sentence of para 3. This issue does not
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into the RADJ
for the SAR). NINA
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walter
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