GRE 1950
PESTRICTET
FM HONG KONG
TO PRIORITY FCO
TELNO 443
OF 120235Z FEBRUARY 86
PA
RESTRICTED
A "Contal of Lads ord
CG: 13/2
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INFO PRIORITY HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE LONDON
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INFO ROUTINE PEKING, UKMIS GENEVA, HKGO WASHINGTON, HIGO GENEVA INFO POUTINE HKGO NEW YORK, HKGO BPUSSELS
HKL 30/
RECEIVED IN REGISTRY
13 FEB 1986
HONG KONG AGREEMENT: PRESS COVERAGE: WEEKLY ROUNDUP.
DESK OFFICER
REGISTAY
INDEX
PA
Action Taken
SUMMARY.
1. IN GENERAL A QUIETER WEEK WITH THE INTERVENTION OF THE NEW YEA
HOLIDAY. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT STORIES WEPE THE DEPAPTURE OF LU
PING AND NATIONALITY.
Now?
2. LU PING : LU AND DELEGATION LEFT HK ON 5 FEBRUARY. A FEW PAPERS
NOTED THAT JOURNALISTS ATTEMPTED TO ASK LU TO CLARIFY PEMARKS ON
THE SAR LEGISLATURE PASSING A MOTION TO PEQUEST THE RECALL OF THE
CHIEF EXECUTIVE. LU SIDESTEPPTED THIS BY SAYING THAT THE COMMENTS
HAD BEEN MADE BY UMELCO MEMBER DE CHIU HIN-KWONG. DP. CHIU LATER
QUOTED LU AS SAYING THAT THE SAR LEGISLATUPE AND EXECUTIVE WOULD BE
INDEPENDENT OF EACH OTHER, NEITHER WOULD BE AROVE THE OTHER, AND EACH WOULD EXEPT CHECKS AND PALANCES ON THE OTHEP. IN AN INTERVIEW
WITH MING PAO, LU SAID THAT THOSE PAPTS OF HY LAWS WHICH WEPE NOT
COMPATIBLE WITH THE BL AND WITH CHINA-S SOVEREIGN RIGHTS WOULD
HAVE TO BE AMENDED. HE DESCRIBED HE'S LAW AND ORDER SITUATION AS
''LESS THAN SATISFACTORY''. ON THE ECONOMY, LU SAID THAT HK SHOULD CONTINUE WITH ITS OPEN POLICY AND LOW TAXES, AND THE HKG SHOULD REMAIN NON-INTERVENTIONIST. HOWEVER, THE HKC SHOULD ASSIST LOCAL
INDUSTRY, LU SAID. SPEAKING IN CANTON IN THE WAKE OF THE COLLAPSE
OF A HK TRAVEL AGENCY, LU SAID IT WAS THE PAD CONSEQUENCE OF A POTENTIAL ECONOMIC CRISIS WHICH HAD BEEN EVIDENT IN RECENT YEARS,
ALTHOUGH HE BELIEVED HONG KONG HAD NOT ENTERED A PERIOD OF
PEADJUSTMENT AND STABILITY. HE STRESSED THỊT CHIMA WAS SUPPORTIVE
OF HK'S ECONOMY AND POINTED TOWARDS THE INJECTION OF CAPITAL INTO
THE KA WAH BANK AS A TYPICAL EXAMPLE
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ON HIS DEPARTURE HE
SAID HE HOPED TO VISIT HONG KONG AGAIN TO LISTEN TO HOPE PEOPLE'S
VIEWS ON THE BL. MOST PAPERS CAFRIED AM NCMA FOUND-UP ON LU'S
VISIT WHICH SAID THAT HE HAD SOUGHT LOCAL VIEWS ON A WIDE FASIS.
MARTIN LEE MAS QUOTED AS SAYING THAT LU WAS LITERAL-MINDED AND
FAMILIAR WITH LOCAL AFFAIRS, BUT HE evenenCED REGRET THAT LU HAD
NOT (NOT) MET SOME GROUPS, SUCH AS THE BAR ASSOCIATION AND LAW
SOCIETY, IN PERSON LEAVING THIS TO MENDERS OF HIS DELECATION.
ACCORDING TO SING TAO JIH PAO, LU HAD DURING HIS STAY CONFIRMED TO
LOCAL MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS THAT DOCTORS 1 ་' CHINA HAD ASKED FOR
PERMISSION TO PRACTICE IN HONG KONG WITHOUT THE NEED TO GO TYPOUCH
A QUALIFICATION EXAMINATION AFTER 1997, BUT HE HAD STRESSED THAT
RESTRICTED
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