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Foreign Affairs (MFA)
Affairs Office of the Ministry of
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This briefing was conducted by Mr ZHAO Jihua
) who is the Office's Director. Without a
the worst briefing we attended in terms of
considered it to be a complete waste of
The most obvious question which Mr ZHAO tried to,
doubt, it was
content, and I
time.
but could not satisfactorily, answer was the relationship
of his office to the HKMAO. He stated that the latter was
concerned with general issues affecting
the territory
whereas the former dealt with issues involving foreign
affairs e.g. the new airport, the visit by the British
Prime Minister to China etc. However, this should surely
not be taken to imply that the HKMAO is not involved in
airport matters! Clearly, there seems to be an overlap
between the functions of both offices which cannot be
logically explained and this is presumably a reflection of
the fact that, in the Chinese administrative structure,
certain ministries and departments monitor each other.
Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade (MOFERT)
This
briefing
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was conducted by five officials led
), the Deputy Director of the
It was the first of the briefings to be
'technical' as opposed to 'political'
However, by contrast, it was also an informative
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