14-OCT-1993 17:00
HANSON GOVERNMENT HOUSE
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17.
Acceptance of the need to set a deadline is
probably linked to the community's refusal to be deterred by
suggestions of CPG retaliation in the event of a breakdown
in Sino-UK talks on constitutional issues:
PBR Poll, 7/8 October
(a) 60 per cent were not worried about a lack of
CPG economic
collapsed.
cooperation if the Peking talks
(b) 78 per cent were not worried about a CPG
takeover of the
territory before 1997 if the
Peking talks collapsed.
THE DESIRE FOR INVOLVEMENT
18.
Opinion polls
demonstrate considerable
community
nervousness about its
lack of involvement in negotiations
with the CPG:
HKU Poll, 11 September
(a) 70 per cent opposed a secret agreement.