CONFIDENTIAL
FM PEKING
TO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG
TELNO 164
OF 070744Z JUNE 91
CONFIDENTIAL
HKB 061 / Q DIST?
62001.991
INFO IMMEDIATE FCO, UKREP JLG HONG KONG
1747
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MDHIAN 0189
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Mr Stone.
HONG KONG TELNO 1747 STATUE OF DEMOCRACY: CALL ON ZHAO JIHUA:
6 JUNE
SUMMARY
1.
COUNSELLOR SUMMONED TO MFA TO RECEIVE STRONG COMPLAINT ABOUT THE STATUE OF DEMOCRACY AND ALLEGATIONS OF HKG CONNIVANCE IN SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES AGAINST CHINA.
DETAIL
2. ON 6 JUNE COUNSELLOR WAS SUMMONED BY ZHAO JIHUA (DIRECTOR, HKMAO, MFA). UNVARNISHED TRANSLATION OF HIS DEMARCHE AS FOLLOWS CHE DECLINED TO HANDOVER HIS SPEAKING NOTE IN ENGLISH BUT FINALLY AGREED TO HAND OVER THE CHINESE VERSION):
BEGINS
RECENTLY THE STATUE OF THE SO-CALLED GODDESS OF DEMOCRACY, USED AS A POLITICAL TOOL BY SOME OVERSEAS POLITICAL FORCES, WAS SHIPPED TO HONG KONG. WU MENGWU, FORMER OWNER OF THE SHIP GODDESS OF DEMOCRACY USED FOR REACTIONARY BROADCASTING, ALSC ARRIVED IN HONG KONG BRINGING 1,000 MINI STATUES OF THE GODD ́SS OF DEMOCRACY TO BE HANDED OUT AT ANTI-CHINA RALLIES. MEANWHILE ANTI-CHINA AND SUBVERSIVE ORGANISATIONS AIMED AT OVERTHROWING THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT, SUCH AS THE HONG KONG-BASED HONG KONG ALLIANCE IN SUPPORT OF PATRIOTIC DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT IN CHINA CHONG KONG ALLIANCE), HAVE HELD A SERIES OF ANTI-CHINA DEMONSTRATIONS AND RALLIES SINCE EARLY JUNE IN THE NAME OF THE SO-CALLED TWO YEARS ANNIVERSARY OF JUNE 4. IN THEIR POLITICAL PROVOCATION AND TROUBLE MAKING THEY EVEN CARRIED MOCK COFFINS AND RUSHED TOWARDS THE OFFICE BUILDING OF THE HONG KONG BRANCH OF NCNA. MOREOVER, THE ELEMENTS OF THE KMT IN HONG KONG TAKING PART IN THE DEMONSTRATIONS AND RALLIES PUT OUT KMT FLAGS OPENLY
* ЧЕ HONG KONG BRANCH OF NCNA HAS LODGED PROTESTS WITH THE BRITISH HONG KONG GOVERNMENT ON JUST GROUNDS, DEMANDING THAT THE BRITISH
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