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(Extract from the Nineties Issue No. 188 Sept. 1985)
Column: Hong Kong Bend (The 1997 File)
Painful first steps for the Basic Law
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By Ho Lap
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The question of the Basic Law has stirred up quite a controversy in town and opinions vary as to how the consultative committee should be
But this is only the beginning. Henceforth, Sino-Hongkong dealings
set up.
on the question of the Basic Law will mainly hinge on whether Hong Kong
people put up a fight or give way on some 'bottom lines'
With the closing of the Basic Law Drafting Committee's first
meeting in Beijing and preparations for the setting up of the Basic Law
Consultative Committee in Hong Kong, the 'fighting ring' of the Basic Law
has been shifted from Beijing to Hong Kong.
The question of a Basic Law consultative body had already become
a focus of discussion at the Drafting Committee's meetings in Beijing.
The final conclusion arrived at was that the Hongkong members of the Basic
Law Drafting Committee would be entrusted to prepare for the setting up
of the Basic Law Consultative Committee, with the assistance of the Hong
Kong Branch of the New China News Agency. In view of the fact that the Consultative Committee, which should, in principle, be a body made up of
members of the public, will be set up by the Drafting Committee - an
officially appointed body and Beijing's official agent in Hong Kong,
battle smoke has been seen to rise incessantly from the 'fighting ring'.
The 'visit' and 'naming' of members
Some community groups in Hong Kong were soon worried about how
the local members of the Drafting Committee would go about setting up the
Consultative Committee. First of all, it is obvious that since Hong Kong
is a capitalist city where the capitalist system will remain unchanged
for 50 years after 1997, Beijing's appointment of Hong Kong members to
the Drafting Committee had taken into account the upper classes of the
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