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has grown up in very different circumstances than their immigrant parents. It is surely far better to respond to this pressure by a system we believe acceptable to China than seeking to bottle it up under the colonial system of the past; and that any negotiation with the Chinese must of necessity be done in great secrecy and over the heads of the Hong Kong Government which in any case has no locus standi in the matter. The
character of that Government cannot
affect the issue and if the result of
the negotiation with China were unpopular with Hong Kong it would be with the population as a whole, not merely with certain members of its Government.
The
Paragraph 17(a) above suggests that mutual adjustment will be necessary to take account of political realities here and the situation in Hong Kong. One such example is of current concern. International Committees of the TUC and the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party have pressed hard for the appointment of someone drawn from the independent (i.e. non-Communist, non-KMT) unions to the Legislative Council in June. This is on the grounds that such an appointee could bring working class considerations to bear on the government process. In his meetings with both Committees the Governor has been unable to convince
them of the undesirability of appointing members of what are, indeed, small and unrepresentative unions to the Council. This is consistent with his general view that LegCo members need to be people with wide experience of community affairs and of high quality since the Council has executive functions; works very closely with the official side of the Government
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