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12 APR 1983
FM HONG KONG 0904402 APR 83
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TELEGRAM NUMBER 481 OF 9 APRIL
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CHISH
FUTURE OF HONG KONG: CHINESE TACTICS IN HONG KONG.
1. THE FOCUS OF CHINESE UNITED FRONT ACTIVITY SEEMS TO HAVE
SHIFTED FROM THE PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN IN THE LOCAL COMMUNIST
PRESS TO THE CULTIVATION OF INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS BELIEVED
TO BE INFLUENTIAL, SOME OF WHICH ARE BEING INVITED TO PEKING.
THE MORE SIGNIFICANT OF THESE VISITS ARE:
(A) A GROUP OF ACADEMICS FROM THE TWO UNIVERSITIES AND THE
POLYTECHNIC LEFT HONG KONG FOR CHINA ON 1 APRIL. THEY MET LIAO
CHENGZHI ON 3 APRIL, BUT NO DETAILS OF THE MEETING HAVE YET
EMERGED. ACCORDING TO LOCAL NEWSPAPER REPORTS, THE GROUP WERE
TOLD BY LIAO TO SAY NOTHING TO THE PRESS. THE LOCAL COMMUNIST
PRESS HAVE ALSO REPORTED THAT TWO GROUPS FROM LEFT-WING EDUCATION
CIRCLES IN HONG KONG, CURRENTLY VISITING CHINA, WERE RECEIVED
BY THE MINISTER FOR EDUCATION TOGETHER WITH THE ACADEMIC GROUP
ON 4 APRIL. BETWEEN THEM THESE THREE GROUPS TOTALLED SOME 100
PEOPLE.
NOW
(B) A VISIT BY A GROUP OF YOUNGER PROFESSIONALS, INCLUDING THREE UNOFFICIAL MEMBERS OF LEGCO, IS FIRMLY SCHEDULED FOR 16 MAY.
(MY TELNO 299 REFERS).
(C) FUNG KING-HEY HAS AGAIN VISITED PEKING WHERE HE MET LIAO CHENGZHI ON 4 APRIL. NO DETAILS ARE YET AVAILABLE, BUT IT SHOULD
BE POSSIBLE TO OBTAIN AN ACCOUNT FROM FUNG ON HIS RETURN. DENNIS CHIU, MANAGING DIRECTOR OF ATV (AND SON OF DEACON CHIU) ALSO SAW
LIAO ON 4 APRIL.
2. THE GUANGDONG PROVINCIAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS AND THE GUANGDONG CPPCC HAVE BEEN MEETING IN CANTON. A TOTAL OF 59 RESIDENTS FROM HONG KONG AND MACAU WERE ELECTED TO THESE SESSIONS, 45 TO THE PEOPLE'S CONGRESS AND 24 TO THE POLITICAL CONSULTATIVE CONFERENCE.
JEAR COMPARED WITH LAST THIS REPRESENTS AN INCREASE OF 14 FOR THE CONGRESS AND A DECREASE OF 7 FOR THE CONFERENCE, MAKING AN
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