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The Joint Declaration also stated that the Special Administrative Region Government might employ British and other foreign nationals. holding permanent identity cards of the SAR to serve as public servants. British and foreign nationals applying for permanent identity cards had to take HK as their place of permanent residence. What should be done if they hold right of abode in the UK too is a subject for study, Tong said.
Commenting on a report that more than 100,000 people or organisations would enjoy double voting rights in 1991 if the existing election methods were not changed, a commentator said in Ta Kung Pao that this would not be fair. He thought that if anyone wanted to retain his voting right in the functional constituencies, he should give up his right in the direct election. Technically, this should not be too much a problem to be resolved, he said.
A commentator said in Ming Pao that inevitably foreigners would express views to protect their own interests if a territory was to open itself up and to go for internationalisation. He said that what was more worrying was the institutionalisation of foreign political influence. However, there was not any sign that the British Government was attempting to do this, therefore the Chinese Government had over-reacted in its attack on internationalisation of the HK issue, the writer said.
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