PREPARATORY COMMITTEE/PREPARATORY WORKING COMMITTEE
C1. Lu Ping told a Hong Kong printers' delegation that if the British side tabled the Governor's package in LegCo it
would mean the end of the talks and the Preparatory Working
Committee would thereupon speed up its work to study the formation of the first SAR LegCo in accordance with the
Basic Law (HK press 8 November).
BILL OF RIGHTS
D1.
According to the South China Morning Post (3 Nov) John Kamm quoted Lu Ping as saying that China had no objection to the contents of the Bill of Rights but would seek to modify its status so that it would not supersede the Basic Law (not reported by Hong Kong pro-Peking press).
D2. Lu Ping told a delegation of Hong Kong printers that the Bill of Rights, being above other Hong Kong laws,
violated the Basic Law and had "side-effects". (HK press 8
November).
ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS
E1. Speaking to a Hong Kong American Chamber of Commerce delegation Lu Ping said that it was a cardinal point of
Chinese policy to maintain the factors responsible for Hong
Kong's present success. He said that if China discovered in 1997 that these factors were not being maintained and that Hong Kong could not continue as a prosperous international finance and trade centre, China might adopt
different policies. He added that if the talks failed some
turbulence (bodong) in Hong Kong was inevitable but this
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