Posted on 07/03/2004 6:00:45 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
Text of report entitled: "An official of the Information Bureau under the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office says: The scheme of Taiwan's 'Mainland Affairs Council' to attack and defame the policy of 'one country, two systems' will be futile", carried by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) Asia-Pacific service Beijing, 2 July: Recently, some Hong Kong people held rallies. A Xinhua reporter interviewed an official of the Information Bureau under the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office.
Text of report entitled: "An official of the Information Bureau under the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office says: The scheme of Taiwan's 'Mainland Affairs Council' to attack and defame the policy of 'one country, two systems' will be futile", carried by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) Asia-Pacific service
Beijing, 2 July: Recently, some Hong Kong people held rallies. Taiwan's "Mainland Affairs Council [MAC]" seized the opportunity and attacked and defamed the policy of "one country, two systems". A Xinhua reporter interviewed an official of the Information Bureau under the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office.
The official said: Since Hong Kong returned to the motherland, the central government has been comprehensively implementing the policy of "one country, two systems". Hong Kong compatriots have become masters of their own affairs and been enjoying, according to law, a wide range of democratic rights that they never had before the reversion. These are widely acknowledged facts. By seizing the opportunity that some Hong Kong people held rallies, Taiwan's "MAC" made irresponsible remarks on Hong Kong affairs and wantonly attacked the policy of "one country, two systems" that the central government has been comprehensively implementing in Hong Kong since its reversion. Taiwan's "MAC" attempted to use the opportunity to facilitate the requirements for promoting "Taiwan independence" separatist activities. It has made erroneous calculations and its scheme will be futile.
So much for "becoming masters of their own affairs".
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China does not want to mess with Taiwan...that is why Hong Kong will be squashed here very soon...
Hong Kong compatriots have become masters of their own affairs and been enjoying, according to law, a wide range of democratic rights that they never had before the reversion.
They never had before?
Leading Cadres, shaking in boots.
Any successful challenge to their authority and it's all over for them.
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