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4 November 1993

P F Ricketts Esq

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Dear Peter,

HONG KONG: POLITICAL BI

1.

This letter attempt political mood in Hong second address to LegCo talks move into what is break phase. Much of impressionistic. But have been taking in red Kong political opinion

The Public Mood

2. This is not the ple opinion polls. But it consistently sending ou

(a) there remains a proportion of the commu steady approval of the reform, both in general components of his refor

(b) there is an equal on the part of most peo

(c) there is a growi on constitutional refor (a) and (b) may, after in the foreseeable futu

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St John's Building, 3rd Floor 33 Garden Road

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brief assessment of the current

in the aftermath of the Governor's October, and as the Sino-British erally recognised here as a make or follows is necessarily

based in part on soundings which I Weeks with a cross section of Hong Ide and outside LegCo.

or a detailed analysis of public Hor Worth noting that the polls have been

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ng desire on the part of a substantial

for more democracy; and there is rnor's approach to constitutional

and in respect of the individual oposals;

strong, if not even stronger, desire for good relations with China;

ealisation that the Sino-British talks

likely to fail, and that objectives be impossible to reconcile, at least

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