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MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1992
QUESTION: MAINLAND GOVERNMENT JS SHOWING IN SECONDLY, ARE YOU SURPRISED HOW APPEAR TO BE AT THE MOMENT?
SIR, ARE YOU SURPRISED HOW MUCH INTEREST THE
THE HIVING OFF OF RTHK, AND UNHAPPY THE MAJORITY OF THEIR STAFF
GOVERNOR:
OF
HOW HAPPY I CAN'T ANSWER FOR THE SECOND POINT AT ALL, OR UNHAPPY RTHK ARE. THEY ALWAYS SOUND VERY HAPPY WHEN I'M LISTENING
GOVERNMENT TO THEM IN THE MORNING. BUT THE INTERESTS OF THE CHINESE I AM, I THINK, SLIGHTLY SURPRISED AT THE, PUT IT LIKE THIS, THE AMOUNT OF CONCERN, NOT THE INTEREST, I MEAN, AFTER ALL WE BRIEFED THE CHINESE WILL GOVERNMENT BECAUSE WE THOUGHT IT WAS RIGHT TO BRIEF THEM AND WE INDEED LISTEN TO WHAT VIEWS THEY'VE GOT, AND I EXPECT THAT'S
THIS WEEK. THE THINGS THAT WILL COME UP AT THE JOINT LIAISON GROUP
AND POSSIBLY BUT THERE DOES SEEM TO BE A DEGREE OF CONCERN ABOUT IT
WHICH I HADN'T REALLY MISUNDERSTANDING
ANTICIPATED. ALSO
WHAT'S HAPPENING, AS MOST PEOPLE KNOW, IS AN IDEA OF CORPORATISING RTHK, IT'S NOT BECOMING INDEPENDENT IN THE SENSE THAT SOME OF THE NEWSPAPERS SAY. IN THE IT IS NOT UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE GOVERNMENT AT THE MOMENT,
I FIND IT ACTUALLY VERY WAY THAT SOME NEWSPAPERS APPARENTLY BELIEVE. STRANGE TO THINK THAT ANYBODY BELIEVES RTHK IS UNDER THE EDITORIAL CONTROL OF THE GOVERNMENT BECAUSE YOU WOULD HAVE TO GO THROUGH IMMENSE THE CONVOLUTIONS TO EXPLAIN QUITE A LOT OF THEIR CRITICAL COMMENT ON GOVERNMENT, YOU WOULD HAVE TO HAVE A WONDERFUL CONSPIRACY THEORY ABOUT OTHER HALF. ONE HALF OF THE GOVERNMENT HARD AT WORK CRITICISING THE IT'S A MUCH EASIER THEORY TO BELIEVE THE TRUTH, WHICH IS THAT RTHK HAS EDITORIAL INDEPENDENCE. NOW WE'VE STILL GOT A LOT OF TALKING TO DO ON THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT, SO I CAN'T SAY AT THIS STAGE EXACTLY WHERE WE EDITORIAL WILL GET TO, BUT I CAN SAY THAT THE IDEA WAS TO RETAIN THAT
RUNNING RTHK INDEPENDENCE WHICH IT ALREADY HAS AND TO FIND WAYS OF WHICH ARE MORE EFFICIENT AND MORE COST-EFFECTIVE THAN THEY ARE AT MOMENT.
THE
REMINDING ME QUESTION:
GOVERNOR, YOUR WIFE HAS BEEN GRACIOUSLY
ACHIEVEMENTS, AND THAT WE SHOULD GIVE MORE ATTENTION TO HONG KONG'S ALL THESE
YOU THAT
DESERVES GIVE TODAY
AND IS IMPRESSIVE AND IT SPEAKS WELL FOR BRITISH RULE. THE QUESTION I CONGRATULATIONS
GONE THIS WOULD LIKE TO ASK YOU 18, DO YOU THINK THINGS WOULD HAVE
то DIRECTLY
THE WELL. IF YOU HAD ENTRUSTED GREATER RESPONSIBILITY
HAD YOU ALLOWED
OF
FOR
KONG THEMSELVES. HONG PEOPLE ELECTORAL LEGISLATURE SAY BACK IN 1988?
EXAMPLE,
AT
LUNCH,
AND LUNCH. CRICKET PASTIME, YOU 'GOOGLY',
GOVERNOR:
YOU QUOTE WHAT WAS SAYING WE'VE SAID WITHOUT BEING UNFAIR I'LL QUOTE A BIT OF A CONVERSATION BEFORE WE
WERE TALKING TO SOME PEOPLE ABOUT CRICKET AND SAYING THAT WAS A PECULIARLY ENGLISH PASTIME, NOT EVEN A SCOTTISH HAVE JUST BOWLED WHAT IN CRICKETING TERMS WOULD BE CALLED A
DIFFICULT ΤΟ RATHER BECAUSE IT'S A BALL THAT WEAVES AROUND AND IS
RATHER THAN A LET ME SAY THIS ON IT, ACTUALLY KNOW WHERE TO HIT.
'NO' ANSWER IS 'YES/NO' ANSWER BECAUSE CLEARLY NEITHER A 'YES' OR
EVOLVE CORRECT FOR THAT SORT OF QUESTION, WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS
FITS A POLITICAL STRUCTURE HERE WHICH FITS HONG KONG'S HISTORY, WHICH ITS SOCIETY AT THE MOMENT AND WHICH FITS WITHIN WHAT IS LAID DOWN THE FUTURE, AND THAT IS A VERY DIFFICULT PROCESS, IT'S GOT TO BE, WE ARE TO RETAIN STABILITY, A SLOW AND GRADUAL PROCESS. IS WHAT WE HAVE BEEN GOING THROUGH, AND I THINK WE HAVE THROUGH IT, CONSIDERING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CHANGES, AND THE MARK OF THAT IS THE FACT THAT HONG KONG, RIGHTLY, OVER THESE LAST FEW YEARS HAS BEEN DOING SO SUCCESSFULLY.
FOR
1F
THAT I THINK
BEEN VERY
GOING WELL,
AS YOU SAY QUITE
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