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5. COMMENTARIES IN THE LEFT-WING PRESS CONTINUED TO ATTACK THE ''THREE PETTY TRICKS'' ON FAMILIAR TERMS. THE MAIN POINTS WERE :
THE BRITISH SIDE WERE CREATING A SMOKE SCREEN TO MISLEAD HK PEOPLE TO BELIEVE THAT SMOOTH PROGRESS HAD BEEN ACHIEVED AT THE
TALKS.
THE BRITISH SIDE USED THE THREE PETTY TRICKS TO TEST THE CHINESE SIDE. IT WAS CLEAR THAT CHINA HAD NOT SOFTENED HER STANCE: THE BRITISH SIDE SHOULD CHANGE COURSE TO RETURN TO THE THREE CONFORMITIES.
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THE HK ECONOMIC JOURNAL TODAY QUOTED PRO-BEIJING SOURCES AS SAYING THAT THE CHINESE LEADERSHIP WAS VERY ANGRY WITH THE PETTY TRICKS AND THE CHINESE SIDE WOULD MAKE A BLAST AT THE FIFTH ROUND OF TALKS. THE CHINESE TEAM WAS GETTING PREPARED IN THE EVENT OF BREAKDOWN OF TALKS.
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7. THE HK COMMERCIAL DAILY REPORTED THAT THE NPC STANDING COMMITTEE HAD DRAWN UP A BLUEPRINT FOR THE PRELIMINARY WORK ORGAN OF THE SAR PREPARATORY COMMITTEE. ITS STRUCTURE WOULD BE SIMILAR TO THAT OF THE BLOC, WITH A MEMBERSHIP OF AROUND 30 TO 40 PERSONS. THE MAJORITY OF MEMBERSHIP (AROUND 20) WOULD BE DRAWN FROM HK. THERE WOULD BE AROUND 10 CHINESE MEMBERS.
8. IT WAS EXPECTED THAT NPC VICE-CHAIRMAN AND FORMER BLDC MEMBER WANG HANBIN WOULD HEAD THE ORGAN. THERE WOULD BE A NUMBER OF DEPUTY DIRECTORS TO BE DRAWN FROM BOTH HK AND THE MAINLAND. VICE-CHAIRMAN OF THE CPCC FOK YING-TUNG AND BLDC DEPUTY-DIRECTOR T.K. ANN WERE EXPECTED TO BE APPOINTED AS HK DEPUTIES. LU PING, ZHOU NAN AND OFFICIALS RESPONSIBLE FOR HK AFFAIRS WOULD BE APPOINTED AS CHINESE DEPUTIES.
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AS FOR OTHER MEMBERS OF THE WORK ORGAN, CHINESE EXPERTS WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THE DRAFTING OF THE BL SUCH AS WU JIANFAN, XU CHONGDE, AND XIAN WEIYUN AS WELL AS OFFICIALS RESPONSIBLE FOR HK AFFAIRS WOULD BE APPOINTED. HK DELEGATES WOULD BE DRAWN FROM DIFFERENT CROSS-SECTIONS OF THE SOCIETY. THE TIPPED APPOINTEES, MOSTLY HK AFFAIRS ADVISERS, WERE: FROM THE BUSINESS SECTOR LI KA- SHING AND VINCENT LO: FROM THE BANKING SECTOR DAVID LI: FROM THE LEGAL PROFESSION DOROTHY LIU: AND FROM THE PROFESSIONAL LEUNG
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