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Dinner Party with
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at Victoria House
Atmosphere was friendly, frank and relaxed throughout. Lu very willing to talk about and hear ideas on situation in Hong Kong and not interested in social trivia.
Insisted on my sitting on sofa with him. Commiserated with one another about the Hong Kong press. We agreed that it was a problem that was
not going to go away.
Lu quickly brought up the matter of
accountability and said that he had been quizzed about this. I explained how we saw accountability in the Hong Kong situation and that different places had different solutions to the question. Accountability in Hong Kong was developing e.g. Finance Committee, and evolving, not static relationship, but nevertheless the executive had to maintain its authority to govern. structure: Governor, Executive Countil, Legislative Council was essential and should be maintained.
The
He had heard We reverted to this a number of times. it said that it meant that the executive had to take
PA and its directions from the Legislature. myself reassured him that there was no question of this. I said how important in a complex commercial and capitalist economy, such as Hong Kong, it was to have in the government people who understood this Lu said direct elections could
complex machine.
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