THEP.JUG HONG KONG.
14. NOV. 93,
152
PG.02
4 November 1993
P F Ricketts Esq
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Dear Peter,
HONG KONG: POLITICAL BI
1.
This letter attempt political mood in Hong second address to LegCo talks move into what is break phase. Much of impressionistic. But have been taking in red Kong political opinion
The Public Mood
2. This is not the ple opinion polls. But it consistently sending ou
(a) there remains a proportion of the commu steady approval of the reform, both in general components of his refor
(b) there is an equal on the part of most peo
(c) there is a growi on constitutional refor (a) and (b) may, after in the foreseeable futu
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brief assessment of the current
in the aftermath of the Governor's October, and as the Sino-British erally recognised here as a make or follows is necessarily
based in part on soundings which I Weeks with a cross section of Hong Ide and outside LegCo.
or a detailed analysis of public Hor Worth noting that the polls have been
e following clear messages:
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ng desire on the part of a substantial
for more democracy; and there is rnor's approach to constitutional
and in respect of the individual oposals;
strong, if not even stronger, desire for good relations with China;
ealisation that the Sino-British talks
likely to fail, and that objectives be impossible to reconcile, at least
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