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G7.
PRC Deputy Foreign Trade Minister Gu Yongjiang said that Sino-British trade had not yet been affected by
the political dispute but that "objectively" the Governor's approach had created factors of instability. He said that Jardines' actions had gone beyond what was normal for an international trading concern and caused many companies to
lose confidence in them. He added that if Britain went
further in non-compliance with the Joint Declaration it would inevitably have effects on Sino-British and Sino-Hong Kong trade (HAP 16 Arr:1 1993).
G8.
Zhu Rongji reportedly told a national meeting of Chinese overseas banking and insurance institutes that Britain might play the "financial card" during the last
four years of the transition (Hong Kong Standard 25 August
1993).
G9.
Speaking to a HK Chinese General Chamber of Commerce delegation on 28 October, Qian Qichen said that if no agreement could be reached in the negotiations the stipulations of the Basic Law would be put into effect in 1997; this would just mean that there could be no transition for LegCo in 1997 and no through train, but it
would not amount to a total break in Sino-British relations
nor mean that there could be no co-operation in other
fields (TKP 29 Oct 1993).
AIRPORT
H1.
Jiang Zemin said that he was not prepared to put
up with "you ask us to dinner and we pay the bill". China
would not take money from the Hong Kong people but the Chinese government did not have funds to subsidise [the airport project] (TKP 21 July 1992). Ming Pao (21 July) reported that Jiang Zemin warned the British side to proceed strictly according to the MoU (Ming Pao 21 July
1992).
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