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CHINESE COMPLAINT ABOUT A PLANNED RALLY ON 29 SEPTEMBER BY THE H K ALLIANCE AND ''H K POST-SECONDARY STUDENT UNION''.
1. ON 27 SEPTEMBER FIRST SECRETARY WAS SUMMONED BY WANG JIANXING CHKMAO, MFA) TO RECEIVE A COMPLAINT ABOUT A RALLY PLANNED FOR 29 SEPTEMBER BY THE H K ALLIANCE AND ''H K POST-SECONDARY STUDENT UNION''
HE DID NOT HAND OVER HIS SPEAKING NOTE. HIS MAIN POINTS WERE AS FOLLOWS.
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THE CHINESE SIDE HAD NOTICED THAT THE H K ALLIANCE AND ''H K POST-SECONDARY STUDENT UNION'' HAD RECENTLY MADE AN OPEN APPEAL FOR ATTENDANCE AT A RALLY ON 29 SEPTEMBER. THEY WERE INTENDING TO DEMONSTRATE IN FRONT OF THE NCNA BUILDING AND TO FORCE THEIR WAY INTO A CHINESE NATIONAL DAY RECEPTION TO BE HELD BY NCNA.
SOME HONG KONG NEWSPAPERS HAD REPORTED THAT THE RHKP HAD CALLED ON THOSE ORGANISATIONS WISHING TO HOLD DEMONSTRATIONS TO CONTACT THEM (RHKP) FOR ADVICE. THE CHINESE SIDE WAS GREATLY CONCERNED
BY THIS.
3. WANG SAID THAT FOR SOME TIME, HKG HAD NOT ONLY REFRAINED FROM PREVENTING SUCH ANTI-CHINESE ACTIVITIES BY GROUPS WHICH OPPOSED
THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT BUT HAD ADOPTED AN ATTITUDE OF
LAISSEZ-FAIRE AND CONNIVANCE UNDER THE PRETEXT OF LAW AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH. MOREOVER, THE REQUEST THAT THE ORGANISATIONS CONCERNED SEEK ADVICE FROM THE RHKP ON HOW THEIR DEMONSTRATIONS SHOULD
PROCEED HAD LED TO AN INCREASE IN AGGRESSION (SIC) IN THESE
ANTI-CHINA ACTIVITIES. SUCH ACTIONS RAN COUNTER TO THE PROCESS OF GRADUAL RESTORATION OF FRIENDLY SINO-BRITISH RELATIONS INSTITUTED BY THE EFFORTS OF THE TWO SIDES' LEADERS. NOR WERE THEY COMPATIBLE WITH THE BRITISH SIDE'S OFT-REPEATED ASSERTION
THAT IT HAD NO INTENTION OF ALLOWING HK TO BECOME A BASE FOR SUBVERSION OF CHINA. THE CHINESE SIDE ASKED HKG TO TAKE RESOLUTE MEASURES TO PREVENT THESE ANTI-CHINESE ACTIVITIES FROM TAKING PLACE, TO ENSURE NCNA'S NORMAL WORKING AND LIVING ORDER AND THE SMOOTH PROCEEDING OF CHINA'S NATIONAL DAY CELEBRATIONS.
WANG LATER ADDED THAT HE HOPED THERE WOULD BE NO REPETITION OF
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