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The Economia Journal vent on to point out the absurdy of requiring elected legislators to undergo checks to see whether they had been involved in subversive unts. Elected councillors had already undergone political, social and ovon moral checks by the voters when they ran for office. Such checks were even more comprehensive than the political and security checks by the Government. Unless China wanted to use political screening of legislators as a means to overhaul the British election system in HK, it should not resort to such a measure.
The paper also called for a clear definition on subversion and stressad that criticisms of the Government by the Opposition should not be considered "subversion" or "treason".
Sing Pao yesterday said China should not be unduely worried that a / minority/legislators suspected of subverting the Chinese Government
would ride the through train to 1997 because the SAR Government could deal with them in accordance with Article 23 of the BI, after 1997, LE the SARPO was to decide who had subverted the Central Government, it was unlikely to make an imparrial decision because most of its members would be pro-China.
The paper seid few HK people would want to turn HK into an anti-Ching base. They would not like to see some legislators being thrown out of the through train in 1997.
Sing Tao Daily yesterday said there was no legal basis for the SARPC to determine what constituted "subversion". The executive organ should be be placed above the SAR's judicial organ.
Tse Tine in Wen Wei Po said China had only proposed who should not become members of the SRR legislature. It was different from proposing objective criteria for the through rrain.
Talks
The United Daily Veks urged China and Britain to seek common grounds in the interests of UK's smooth transition. Although it would not be doomsday if China re-elected the legislative assembly in 1997, there would hardly be any basis for co-operation over the next few years if things developed to such a state. Sing Tao Evening Post, noting that both Qian Oichen and Lu Ping had urged investors to set their at ease and had pledged to uphold HK's prosperity and stability even if there was no agreement, believed China was now prepared to break up the talks.
PWC
Wen Wai Po yesterday said the setting up of the PWC office in HK was important to HK's smooth transition. It showed that while hoping to cooperate with the British side, the Chinese side also wanted to unita HK people and allowed them to actively take part in affairs in the last few years of the transition.
CABLE TV
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The Express said that the operation of satellite and cable TV had brokan the monopoly by commercial TV stations. Free competition among these stations would improve the programme quality and provide viewers with more choices. More information channels for residents would also be conducive co the development of democracy. The HK Commercial Daily said the cable TV issue showed that China would net obstruct any matter that was in the interests of HK's future. The paper noted that besides creating competition fox the TV industry, cable TV would also have a bright future in providing telecommunication services, Both papers noted that the Government's insufficient understanding of new telecommunications technology had delayed the development of satellite and cable TV in HK,
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