NOTE FOR THE FILE
LAST PAPER
HUB 011/2
23 SEP 1993
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Pritical Partie (Meeting Print)
Lunch with Anthony Cheung, Chairman of Meeting Point (13/9/93)
An intelligent man, with a good political sense. He thinks he will probably stand in the 1995 elections and intends to stay on after 1997. (Visits London regularly in the summer to work on his PhD - on corporatisation)
Main Points
Meeting Point continues to support the Governor's proposals. made this clear to Lu Ping, when they saw him in Peking in June.
They
- This meeting had been successful in that both sides had put over their points of view frankly and in a reasonable atmosphere. It was important for Meeting Point to establish themselves as an acceptable interlocutor with Peking and for Peking to hear all points of view in Hong Kong, not just those they liked hearing. Members of the MP delegation included (deliberately) those who had been criticised by Peking.
MP thought that Lu Ping genuinely did not want to see breakdown and confrontation with the British over Hong Kong. But not so sure about other leaders/officials.
-Meeting Point one of the earliest political groups to be formed. Started in the early 1970s out of the student movement that emerged from the Cultural Revolution, Vietnam protest etc.
- MP is not in favour of a civil service FC.
- A. Cheung himself thought Legco would pass whatever package is put to them.
He thought that Hong Kong people found Mr Patten's emphasis on the need for an "honourable" outcome worrying, and irrelevant to what really mattered to Hong Kong. Not in the same category as the rule of law and a strong, self-confident legislature.
K. Sanders
KAM Saunders