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TO PRIORITY FCO
TELNO 2881
OF 110515Z DECEMBER 92
INFO PRIORITY PEKING, UKREP JLG HONG KONG
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CHINESE/PRO-CHINESE COMMENTS ON CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM PRESS
REPORTS.
1.
WEN WEI PO IN ITS EDITORIAL YESTERDAY (10.12) ALLEGED THAT THE RECENT DISTURBANCES AND BLOODSHED AMONG DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS GROUPS IN INDIA WERE THE RESULT OF THE BRITISH 'DIVIDE AND RULE' POLICY DURING THE DECOLONISATION PROCESS AND ASKED HONG KONG PEOPLE TO BEWARE OF THE BRITISH PLOT IN CREATING SIMILAR CONFUSION IN HONG KONG.
COMMITTEE TO IMPLEMENT THE BL.
2.
A FEW PAPERS NOTED THAT NPC DELEGATE THE HONG KONG AFFAIRS ADVISER, LIU YIU-CHU HAD RAISED WITH HKMAO DIRECTOR LU PING PROPOSAL TO SET UP A COMMITTEE UNDER THE NPC STANDING COMMITTEE TO IMPLEMENT THE BL. HONG KONG STANDARD QUOTED LU PING AS SAYING THAT SUCH A PROPOSAL WAS WELCOME. LU PING ALSO SAID THAT HE WOULD WELCOME MORE INPUT FROM OTHER GROUPS ON WHAT CHINA'S FINAL RESPONSE TO MY CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS SHOULD BE.
3.
IN A RELATED DEVELOPMENT, DAB MEMBER TAM YIU-CHUNG SAID THAT THE CURRENT DEADLOCK IN THE JLG HAD STRENGTHENED THE CASE FOR HIS GROUP'S SUGGESTION TO SET UP AN INSTITUTION TO HANDLE ISSUES STRADDLING 1997.
CLINTON'S REMARKS.
4.
CHINESE MFA SPOKESMAN, WU JIANMIN, IN HIS USUAL PRESS BRIEFING YESTERDAY DECLINED TO DIRECTLY COMMENT ON PRESIDENT- ELECT CLINTON'S RECENT REMARKS ON HONG KONG, BUT SAID THAT BRITISH HONG KONG MUST 'UNTIE THE KNOT WHICH THEY HAD TIED IT IN IN THE FIRST PLACE'. BUT NCNA HK DIRECTOR, ZHENG GUOXIONG, COMMENTED THAT THE HONG KONG QUESTION WAS A MATTER BETWEEN CHIN AND BRITAIN BEFORE 1997 AND CHINA'S DOMESTIC AFFAIR AFTER 1997 AND THAT THIRD PARTIES SHOULD NOT MAKE UNNECESSARY REMARKS.
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