that
China's on
borders.
89 -
This visit had been arranged
before the momentous events in the USSR, which commenced
-with President Gorbachev's
short-lived
overthrow on 19
August, and the message which the visit was intended to
convey would have been reinforced even more by the current
disintegration of the USSR.
Individual Briefing Sessions
Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office (HKMAO)
11.
This briefing
(
På + BA
was conducted by Mr CHEN Guang-ming
) who is one of the Deputy Directors of the
It was principally concerned with the
Second Department.
office's functions and organizations. Mr CHEN struck me as
one of the old-school cadres in terms of his deportment,
and the
contents and
delivery of his briefing.
interesting
was
One
fact which energed, that I was not aware of,
that the office had been established in 1978 i.e. about
the same time as Deng Xiao-ping's return to power and one
year before Lord (then, Sir) Maclehose's much publicized
visit to Peking in 1979.
In other words, the Chinese
Government seems to have been thinking about the future of
Hong Kong and Macau some years before the subject was
formally raised by the British Government.
thanked the delegation for Hong Kong's
China's flood relief appeal.
Mr CHEN also
contribution to