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BECOME INVOLVED. THE ORIENTAL DAILY (21.1) SAID THAT LONDON FEARED THAT PEKING WOULD USE THE AIRPORT PROJECT TO UNDERMINE THE ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY OF THE BRITISH IN THE RUN-UP TO 1997 AND THAT IT HAD CAUTIONED THAT THE NEW SITUATION MIGHT BE BECAUSE OF NEW DIRECTIVES FORM LI PENG AND DENG XIAOPING.
10. SENIOR EXCO MEMBER BARONESS DUNN SAID (18.1 REPORTS) SHE DID NOT BELIEVE THAT THE DISPUTE OVER THE NEW AIRPORT PROJECT WAS DUE TO A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE BRITISH AND CHINESE SIDES ON THE INTERPRETATION OF THE JD, ADDING THAT AS LONG AS FRIENDLY CO- OPERATION WAS MAINTAINED AMONG HK, CHINA AND BRITAIN, DIFFERENT VIEWS AND MISUNDERSTANDING WOULD BE RESOLVED THROUGH DIALOGUE. LEGCO MEMBER MARTIN LEE SAID (16.1 REPORTS) THAT ONLY THE BRITISH-HK GOVERNMENT REPRESENTED THE PEOPLE OF HK BEFORE 1997 AND THAT MATTERS THAT STRADDLED 1997, LIKE THE NEW AIRPORT PROJECT, SHOULD BE DECIDED BY HK PEOPLE BECAUSE THE FUTURE HK SAR WOULD BE RUN BY THEM. MEMBER OF THE PROVISIONAL AIRPORT AUTHORITY HO SAI-CHU SAID HE WAS GLAD THAT THE CHINESE HAD MADE CLEAR THAT HIS VIEWS DID NOT REPRESENT THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT.
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