protested.
She pointed out this control was the first in over 100
years. It was illegal and illegitimate to treat Chinese as
the right of all Chinese,
foreigners
when they made an attempt to enter Hong Kong. She pointed out it was
whether from Hong Kong or China, to move
Hong Kong and China. She also claimed that the British
freely between
had no right to set up immigration
control for the Chinese in Hong
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Kong.
1956, the Hong Kong government
From March 5, 1955 to September 3,
felt the pain of an increasing flux of immigrants, legal and illegal,
from the mainland due to political pressure by a co-operative farming
program in China. Steps were taken to limit the immigration from China
under the policy of balancing immigration and emigration. Again, China
She claimed it was against the traditional practice of the
two places; therefore it had damaged the interests of both. Several
reports appeared in the People's Daily to condemn the Hong Kong
government for this restriction. The People's Daily also disclosed
protested.
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tremendous
there were over 15,000 people held up in Canton waiting for their return
to Hong Kong. After reviewing this situation, that caused
inconvenience for some people, the Hong Kong government yielded, and the
balancing measure was removed for six months. Yet the PRC made it known
that she would never accept this restrictive policy of Hong Kong. On
January 17, 1963, when residents of Kowloon Wall City were told to leave
for a rehousing program there, violence occurred between protesters and
from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was
The PRC claimed the
police. An official protest
delivered to the Hong Kong and British governments.
Wall City was under the
government had no right to do anything in that city. During the most
serious riots in the colony in 1967, revolutionary activists of Mao's
Cultural Revolution were arrested, three leftist newspapers were banned,
sovereignty of China; that the Hong Kong
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