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Done (viii) Paragraph 12: fifth line: "April 1992" should
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be "April 1990". (PS/GH)
Paragraph 12: suggest we spell out in terms exactly what HMG said about
about continuing "to press for a faster pace of democratisation". Perhaps the best way would be to quote from the Secretary of State's statement to the House on 16 February 1990.
fully as
Paragraph 13: does not explain as possible the low turn-out rate of the
of the 1991 elections. We might add to the end of the second sentence: "and significant by any standards for elections not leading to the formation of a government or other executive authority".
1991-1992: Response to Changing Attitudes
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Head, CPU comments that this is a key section and suggests how it should deal with the key issues:
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why did Ministers and the Governor adopt an apparently new policy involving a faster pace of democracy;
what was the rationale for the approach in the 1992 Policy Address.
[See Head, CPU's paragraphs 12-17 developing this theme.]
Paragraph 14: EL suggests that we underline the practical need for proposals in the absence as well as the of any from the Chinese side pressure for democratic development.
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Paragraph 15 second last line: we introducing a new criterion here by including "broadly-based". Although we have used this wording before, the Chinese may read more into it now. (PS/GH)
Initial Chinese Reactions
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Paragraphs 17/18: Atg PA makes a similar point to Head, CPU that we are often accused of trying at the last moment of British sovereignty to step up radically the pace of democratic evolution in Hong Kong.
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