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The Implementation of the Sino-British Joint Declaration
John Walden
In December 1989, when the originators of The Other Hong Kong Report launched their first volume in the series, the work of implementing the Sino-British Joint Declaration had already been going on, in secret, for more than four years, under the control of the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group (JLG) at meetings held in London, Beijing and Hong Kong. Four- teen such meetings of the JLG had already taken place, without Hong Kong being formally represented. The thirteenth meeting of the JLG was postponed from July to September 1989 because of the military crackdown on Chinese student demonstrators in Beijing on 3 and 4 June.
☐ Foreign Affairs Committee Inquiry
Long before the tragic incidents in Tiananmen Square put the people of Hong Kong into a state of deep shock and fear for their future, the Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) of the House of Commons, at Westminster, had become aware of mounting discontent in Hong Kong over the slow pace of constitutional reform. Such was the concern that, in February 1989, the FAC invited public representations on the matter in pursuance of a formal inquiry, which would include a visit to Hong Kong to hear evidence.
One of the many written submissions put to the FAC prior to its arrival in Hong Kong described the dramatic decline of public confidence in the
John Walden joined the Colonial Administrative Service in 1950 and served with the Hong Kong government for thirty years, retiring in 1981 as Director of Home Affairs.
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