TNAG-1711-FCO40-2389-Future-British-Consulate-General-in-Hong-Kong-HMS-Tamar-1987 — Page 125

Topics to avoid

Controversial and politically sensitive issues

should be avoided wherever possible.

include:

Some such issues

(i) Daya Bay nuclear plant;

(ii)

the 1987 Constitutional Review; the drafting of

the Basic Law; and the possibility of political

parties in Hong Kong;

(iii) aspects of British Nationality and citizenship;

(iv) Vietnamese Refugees in Hong Kong;

(v) the inevitable commutation of death sentences

although Hong Kong still has the death penalty;

(vi) Kowloon Walled City (see separate brief on

"topical internal issues"); and

(vii) homosexuality.