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PEOPLE TO WORRY ABOUT THE CASE AS WHEN PEOPLE SAW WHAT HAPPENED THEY INEVITABLY ASKED THEMSELVES QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ATTACHMENT OF THOSE WHO MADE THESE DECISIONS TO THE RULE OF LAW. HE SAID HK HAD NO WISH TO FIND ITSELF IN THIS KIND OF SITUATION BUT HAN HAD BEEN PUSHED INTO HK IN CONTRADICTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL RULE OF LAW AND OF OTHER INTERNATIONAL PRECEDENCE. HE URGED MEMBERS OF THE PWC AND THE LOCAL DELEGATES TO THE NPC TO TAKE UP THE CASE.
DENG XIAOPING
22. THE PAPERS CARRIED A CHINA NEWS SERVICE DESPATCH (3.9) ON AN ARTICLE IN THE COMING ISSUE OF THE BAUHINIA MAGAZIINE. THE ARTICLE NOTED DENG XIAOPING'S REMARKS ON HK MADE IN 1982 AT A MEETING WITH THE THEN BRITISH PRIME MINISTER MARGARET THATCHER ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF AN EARLY TAKEOVER OF HK WERE NOT EMPTY THREATS. RATHER, THIS WAS TO MAKE PREPARATION FOR THE WORST WHICH MIGHT HAPPEN IN ORDER TO FIGHT FOR THE BEST RESULTS.
23. THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE OF CHENG MING MAGAZINE CARRIED AN ARTICLE ON CHINA'S PURPOSE IN QUOTING RECENTLY DENG'S REMARKS MADE 12 YEARS AGO. THE WRITER SAID ACCORDING TO CHINESE OFFICIALS RESEARCHING INTO HK AND MACAU AFFAIRS, SOME OFFICIALS IN THE STATE COUNCIL EXPECTED THE REMARKS WOULD PUT PSYCHOLOGICAL PRESSURE ON HK PEOPLE MAKING THEM DISSATISFIED IF BRITAIN DID NOT MAKE CONCESSIONS IN THE TALKS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. IT WAS ALSO A MEANS TO LET THE US KNOW HK PEOPLE'S VIEWS SO THAT THEY COULD NOT INTERFERE. THE ARTICLE SAID JIANG ZEMIN TOLD A STATE COUNCIL HK AND MACAU WORKING MEETING IN AUGUST THAT BRITAIN WOULD NOT WITHDRAW FROM HK WHOLEHEARTEDLY AND IF THE TALKS COULD NOT MAKE THE BRITISH TURN BACK, THEN CHINA HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO TAKE THE INITIATIVE AND CONTROL THE TIMETABLE. DENG'S REMARKS WERE CHINA'S LONGSTANDING POLICY.
LOCALISATION
24. MING PAO QUOTED CHINESE SOURCES AS SAYING (1.9) THE BRITISH SIDE ASKED TO DISCUSS THE DEFINITION OF 'HK PERMANENT RESIDENT' IN THE COMING JLG MEETING. HOWEVER, THE CHINESE SIDE WOULD WANT TO FIRST RESOLVE THE POLICY OF ALLOWING EXPATRIATE CIVIL SERVANTS TO
CHANGE TO LOCAL TERMS BEFORE THEY WERE WILLING TO INCLUDE THIS IN THE JLG AGENDA. QUOTING A PERSON IN THE KNOW, THE PAPER SAID THE CHINESE SIDE HAD ALWAYS LINKED THE ISSUE OF PERMANENT RESIDENTS
WITH THAT OF LOCALISATION OF THE CIVIL SERVICE.
25. THE HK ECONOMIC JOURNAL QUOTED CHINESE SOURCES (1.9) AS SAYING
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