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5. The Governor said two rounds of talks had now been done. Chinese had dug in to their principles and tried to get Hong Kong to agree with them on these principles so as to tie us in to the However the Chinese had also direction of the talks they wanted. narrowed down the areas of disagreement rather quickly, and the atmosphere of the talks had been better than previous contacts
between Hong Kong and China.
The Chinese wanted to change the
proposals on the election committee and functional constituencies.
We had also asked the
We had put a number of proposals to them. Chinese to commit to full direct elections in Hong Kong in 2007 and
provide Hong Kong with the through train.
A related problem would
The
be people holding other nationalities/passports on LegCo, but we would rather leave this to the Chinese to decide in 1997. Governor said he still planned to put the legislation to Legislative Council before the end of the current session.
the
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Senator McConnell asked the Governor what other countries or people could help. The Governor said it would be extremely helpful if other countries could make China aware that the way she treated Hong Kong would be seen by the rest of the World as
a touchstone
a full player.
for her joining the international community as However such support should preferably not be made explicitly in
order to avoid over-reaction from China.
He considered Senator
McConnell's report had struck the right tune and was extremely useful. However if the conditions of MFN, such as those proposed
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