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MDLIAN 3541
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FM HONG KONG
TO PRIORITY FCO
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OF 110948Z FEBRUARY 93
INFO ROUTINE HKGO LONDON, PEKING, UKREP JLG HONG KONG INFO ROUTINE HKGO WASHINGTON, HKGO NEW YORK, BIS NEW YORK INFO HKGO SAN FRANCISCO, UKMIS GENEVA, HKGO GENEVA
FINAL SECTION OF TWO
DENG XIAOPING
13. WHEN ASKED ABOUT DENG'S REMARKS ON THE GOVERNOR'S PACKAGE AS REPORTED IN JAPAN'S YOMIURI SHIMBUN, THE VICE DIRECTOR OF NCNA ZHENG GUOXIANG SAID (6.2) HE LEARNED ABOUT THIS FROM NEWSPAPERS AND WAS NOT CLEAR ON THE DETAILS. HOWEVER, MR ZHENG SAID MR DENG HAD A VERY CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF THE SITUATION IN HK AND WAS VERY CONCERNED ABOUT HK ISSUES, INCLUDING THE CONSTITUTIONAL PROBLEMS AND A SMOOTH TRANSITION IN 1997. TWO OTHER VICE DIRECTORS, ZHENG JUNSHENG AND QIN WENJUN, MADE SIMILAR REMARKS. IT WAS NOTED (7.2) ZHOU NAN CAST DOUBT ON THE REPORT AND WAS QUOTED AS SAYING HE DID NOT UNDERSTAND THE MESSAGE IN THE REPORT, AND WOULD HAVE BEEN INFORMED IF MR DENG HAD EXPRESSED ANY OPINION ON HK AFFAIRS.
14. MING PAO (7.2) REPORTED DENG XIAOPING WAS CONCERNED ABOUT HK AND HAD PUT IT ON A PAR WITH CHINESE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ISSUES. QUOTING SOURCES CLOSE TO THE CHINESE SIDE, THE REPORT SAID DENG HAD BECOME PARTICULARLY CONCERNED ABOUT HK SINCE THE CURRENT DISPUTE AND APART FROM GIVING INSTRUCTIONS THAT THERE SHOULD BE NO CONCESSIONS, HE WAS READING INFORMATION ON HK.
15. PAPERS NOTED (10.2) A REPORT ON THE DEATH OF DENG XIAOPING WAS CIRCULATED IN TAIPEI. THE HEAD OF THE TAIWAN AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT IN NCNA HK WANG ZHENYU DISMISSED THE REPORT AS PURE RUMOUR AND SAID MR DENG WAS IN GOOD HEALTH.
ZHU SENLIN
16. REPORTS NOTED ZHU SENLIN, WHO WAS RE-ELECTED TO BE THE GUANGDONG GOVERNOR AT THE GUANGDONG PROVINCIAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS, REITERATED (9.2) AT A PRESS CONFERENCE THAT SINO-BRITISH RELATIONS WOULD BE IMPROVED ONLY AFTER THE BRITISH CHANGED THEIR ATTITUDE AND THE GOVERNOR WITHDREW HIS POLITICAL REFORMS. REPORTS
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