TNAG-1438-FCO40-1922-Constitutional-development-in-Hong-Kong-1986 — Page 155

Date

Statements by Chinese

Officials

5.1.86 (cont'd)

Constitutional Reforms (49)

Statements by Government News Comments/Editorials

Officials

Statements/Comments

by others

(International Affairs College president Prof Hocking Wong): HK would not see the emergence of party politics.

6.1.86

7.1.86

Communist Papers

(Sze Chusian, writing in Wen Wei Po): It would be useless to talk about democracy if it would scare away capital

Non-communist Papers

(HK Economic Journal): Willing or not, China would have to play the game of democratising HK, otherwise instability would arise and the West would also be given a

pretext to impose

sanction against HK.

People, however, should

not indulge in the search

of real democracy.

(Ming Pao): It was extremely inappropriate to introduce direct

elections in view of the

local circumstances. The

(report) (Source of Financial Daily): China had asked the HK Government through informal diplomatic