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HAVE THE RIGHT TO PROTEST IS A GROUP OF CHINESE CITIZENS HELD A DEMONSTRATION IN PEKING AGAINST ANOTHER GROUP OF CHINESE CITIZENS WHO HAPPENED TO DEPARTING TO BRITAIN (ALTHOUGH HE REALISED THAT DEMONSTRATIONS OF THIS SORT WERE NOT ALL THAT FREQUENT IN CHINA)? LI (BY NOW WAVING HIS ARMS) ASKED WHETHER THIS COULD REALLY BE COMPARED WITH THE CASE HE WAS RAISING. BRADLEY SAID IN ESSENCE IT WAS EXACTLY THE SAME.
4. LI BASHED ON FOR SOME TIME, BUT WITHOUT MAKING ANY NEW POINTS. HE CLAIMED THE POLICE HAD NOT HANDLED THE INCIDENT WELL AND OFFERED AS EVIDENCE NEWSPAPER PICTURES WHICH FEATURED SIR DAVID AKERS-JONES SURROUNDED BY CRITICAL BANNERS IN CHINESE. BRADLEY REFRAINED FROM POINTING OUT THAT THIS INDIVIDUAL ON WHOSE BEHALF NCNA CHOSE TO PROTEST WAS A BRITISH CITIZEN AND A FORMER CHIEF SECRETARY OF THE BRITISH HK GOVERNMENT. LI THEN SAID THAT THE QUOTE BASIC RIGHTS UNQUOTE OF THE ADVISERS HAD BEEN INFRINGED BY THE PROTESTERS. BRADLEY SAID PEOPLE IN HONG KONG HAD THE RIGHT TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES FREELY PROVIDED THEY ACTED WITHIN THE LAW. BUT WAS THIS THE NUB OF THE NCNA'S CONCERN THAT PEOPLE'S BASIC RIGHTS IN HONG KONG WERE NOT BEING RESPECTED? LI EMITTED AN INDETERMINATE NOISE. EVENTUALLY, STILL IN FAIRLY SERIOUS BAD HUMOUR (WHICH HIS YOUNGER COLLEAGUE LU EVIDENTLY FOUND RATHER AMUSING) LI THREW HIS PRINTED SPEAKING NOTE ON TO THE TABLE SAYING QUOTE IT IS ALL IN THERE UNQUOTE AND TOOK HIMSELF OFF.
COMMENT
5. AN INCIDENT OF THIS SORT IS OF COURSE NONE OF CHINA'S BUSINESS, ALTHOUGH WE ARE NOT SURPRISED THEY THINK IT IS. THEY MAY SEEK TO SUGGEST THAT THE DEMONSTRATION WAS TOLERATED (OR WAS EVEN ORGANISED) BY US BECAUSE WE DO NOT LIKE THEM APPOINTING THE ADVISERS. HOWEVER, WE THOUGHT IT WAS RIGHT TO DRAW THIS
PARTICULAR LINE.
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1993-03-29 17:07 INFORMATION SERVICES DEPT
852 521 7725 P.01
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HONG KONG GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICES OVERSEAS PUBLIC RELATIONS SECTION
To: All Overseas Offices
From: Mark Pinkstone
Chief Information Officer
Date: 29 March 1993
Pages: 14
Fax:
Fax: (852) 8459078 (852) 5217725
Tel.:(852) 8428606
Log: OPRS/L/2s
The following pages carry the full list of the
Second Batch of 49 HK Affairs Advisers as reported in the Wen Wei Po and other newspapers today.
HKCC 02012
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RECUZION
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DESK OFFICER
INDEX
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With regards,
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