Date
Statements by Chinese
Officials
8.12.85
9.12.85
Constitutional Reforms (36)
Statements by Government News Comments/Editorials
Officials
10.12.85
(Ji Pengfei, interviewed by Wen Wei Po): Since local political reforms were related to the Basic
Law, he would listen to views on them.
(Visiting Liberal MP Paddy Ashdown): HK was proceeding in the right direction at a right pace regarding its political reforms.
Statements/Comments by others
Non-communist Papers
(Chai Sun of HK Economic Journal): Chinese premier Zhao Ziyang had said in a letter to HKU students that he supported democracy in HK. Returning power to the people of HK was in line with Article 2 of the Chinese Constitution.
* (Xu Simin, BLCC member, wrote in the reader's forum of Wen Wei Po): Judging from UK's social problems, it's not hard to tell whether British parliamentary democracy could bring HK any stability. China was the source of HK's stability. Had China wanted to intervene in HK's affairs, it could have done so long time ago.
(Denis Chang, HK Bar Association chairman): He was concerned about the notion that Britain should not initiate reforms unless they proved to be urgently needed and directly related to maintaining HK's stability and prosperity.
(report) (Lydia Dunn): She would explain to Ji Pengfei the representa- tive system if the occasion was right.
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