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Chinese Policy towards Hong Kong
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a second
statement about Hong Kong on 13 June. (The first was on
15 May.) The latest statement appeared to have been provoked by reports from Hong Kong that two Chinese had been killed
during police action against demonstrators and, "even more
intolerable", a bust of Chairman Mao smashed.
2. The statement lodges the "strongest and most emphatic
protest with the British Government". It mentions the Chinese
Government's "five demands" which had not been referred to in
Chinese propaganda since early June. The language used is
extremely violent and includes the threat (used repeatedly
over the past two years in references to Vietnam) that the
Chinese could not "stand by idly". Despite this however it
appears to represent a further stage in the propaganda offensive
against the Hong Kong Government rather than a decision by the
Chinese Government to take more direct action. The only
ectual action taken since has been the gift of 10 million
H.K. dollars by the Chinese Trade Union Federation to the
Hong Kong Struggle Committee. This will doubtless help the
latter to finance more stoppages. The Chinese have so far
made no attempt, as they did with the earlier statement, to
hand the text over personally either in Peking or in London.
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