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8. FUTURE POLITICAL SYSTEM: THE NEW EVENING POST COLUMNIST YUE MAK SAID HE HOPED THAT THE REVIEW OF POLITICAL REFORMS AND THE QUESTION OF COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN THE BASIC LAW AND THE FUTURE OF THE POLITICAL SYSTEM WOULD BE DEALT WITH ON THE BASIS OF THE COMMON UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN BRITAIN AND CHINA ON THE JOINT DECLARATION. ECONOMIC JOURNAL COLUMNIST YU KAM-YIN WAS OF THE VIEW THAT THE 1987 REVIEW WOULD RECOMMEND THAT SOME OF THE LEGCO SEATS BE ELECTED DIRECTLY. HE SAID THAT ADVOCATES OF DIRECT ELECTIONS WOULD BE UPSET IF NONE OF THE LEGCO SEATS WERE ELECTED DIRECTLY M 1988. THIS COULD LEAD TO UNNECESSARY INSTABILITY IN HONG KONG, HE SAND.

9. BLCC YUE MAK OF THE NEW EVENING POST DISAGREED WITH THE CRITICHISM THAT THE PERFORMANCE OF THE BLCC HAD BEEN DISAPPOINTING. HE SAID THAT ALTHOUGH THE COMMITTEE'S PERFORMANCE WAS IN NO WAY PERFECT, MT WAS NOT (NOT) TRUE THAT IT HAD ACHIEVED NOTHING.. DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE BLCC, SU SIN-BOR, WAS REPORTED IN THE STANDARD AS SAYING THAT A SENSE OF CONFUSION, FRUSTRATION AND DESPAIR CLOUDED THE MAKING OF THE BASIC

LAW. THERE WAS A GROWING AWARENESS THAT THEIR PROBLEMS COULD NOT BE SOLVED BY THE BASIC LAW. THIS WAS WHY HE HAD PROPOSED THE SETTING UP OF ALTERNATIVE CHANNELS TO SOLVE PROBLEMS.

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