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MDHAN 0189
HONG KONG GOVERNMENT TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO BAR THE STATUE OF THE GODDESS OF DEMOCRACY FROM COMING ASHORE AND STOP THE ABOVE- MENTIONED ANTI-CHINA ACTIVITIES. HOWEVER, THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT HAS UNREASONABLY SHIRKED ITS RESPONSIBILITY. I AM NOW INSTRUCTED TO POINT OUT TO THE BRITISH SIDE THAT THE CHINESE SIDE IS GRAVELY CONCERNED ABOUT THE SHIPMENT OF THE STATUE OF THE GODDESS OF DEMOCRACY TO HONG KONG AND ALSO GRAVELY CONCERNED ABOUT THE LARGE SCALE ANTI-CHINESE ACTIVITIES STAGED BY HONG KONG SUBVERSIVE ORGANISATIONS IN COLLUSION WITH KMT ELEMENTS. THE CHINESE SIDE WILL WATCH CLOSELY WHAT ATTITUDE THE BRITISH HONG KONG GOVERNMENT, WHICH IS THE AUTHORITY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF HONG KONG, TAKES TOWARDS THESE POLITICAL PROVOCATIONS.
IT MUST BE POINTED OUT THAT THE RECENT REMPANT AND BLATANT ANTI-CHINESE ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT BY CERTAIN OVERSEAS POLITICAL FORCES AND BY HONG KONG'S ANTI-CHINA SUBVERSIVE ORGANISATIONS ARE INSEPARABLE FROM THE ATTITUDE OF ACQUIESENCE AND CONNIVANCE ADOPTED BY THE BRITISH HONG KONG GOVERNMENT. THE BRITISH HONG KONG GOVERNMENT CONNIVES AT AND SUPPORTS ANTI-CHINA ACTIVITIES ON THE ONE HAND WHILE ON THE OTHER IT SHIRKS ITS RESPONSIBILITY
ON THE GROUNDS THAT THOSE ACTIVITIES HAVE NOT VIOLATED THE LAWS OF HONG KONG. THIS RUNS COUNTER TO THE EXPLICIT COMMITMENT MADE
BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS LONG AGO THAT IT
HAS NO INTENTION OF TURNING HONG KONG INTO A BASE FOR SUBVERSION
AGAINST THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT AND THAT HONG KONG WOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO BE USED BY CERTAIN OVERSEAS FORCES AS A POLITICAL BATTLEGROUND. THE CHINESE SIDE SOLEMNLY REQUEST THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO INSTRUCT THE BRITISH HONG KONG GOVERNMENT TO PROCEED IN THE GENERAL INTEREST OF SAFEGUARDING SINO-BRITISH RELATIONS AND MAINTAINING THE STABILITY OF HONG KONG AND IMMEDIATELY TAKE EFFECTIVE CONTINGENT MEASURES TO FIRMLY FORBID THE STATUE OF THE GODDES OF DEMOCRACY FROM COMING ASHORE, TO PREVENT THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE MINI-STATUES AND TO ORDER WU MENGWU AND HIS FOLLOWERS, WHO ARE THE INITIATORS OF THIS INCIDENT OF POLITICAL PROVOCATION, AND ANTI-CHINA ACTIVISTS TO LEAVE HONG KONG. THE CHINESE SIDE ALSO REQUESTS THE BRITISH SIDE TO ADOPT EFFECTIVE MEASURES TO CHECK THE ANTI-CHINA ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT BY THE HONG KONG ALLIANCE, THE KMT ELEMENTS AND OTHER SUBVERSIVE ORGANISATIONS AGAINST CHINA IN ORDER TO PREVENT THE RECURRENCE OF
SIMILAR INCIDENTS.
THE CHINESE SIDE WOULD LIKE TO ASK THE BRITISH EMBASSY IN PEKING TO REPORT TO THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT THE GREAT CONCERN AND
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