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China's top official on Hong Kong affairs recently visited the colony for 10 days but again snubbed the British leadership while trying to reassure the common citizen and the business community. Lu Ping sounded more conciliatory than in the past, saying China only demands that the chief justice of the proposed Court of Final Appeal be a Chinese citizen with no foreign residency rights, not four of the five judges as is widely feared. He also said everyone with the right of abode in Hong Kong will keep it after Chinese rule begins.
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Hong Kong's United Ants political party wants to educate voters and challenge the major parties in its campaign for seats in 1995's LegCo elections. The elections are unusual for having all 60 seats open to election, 40 by special groups and 20 by sufferage, and because China does not recognize their validity and will disband the LegCo on assuming power in 1997. The Ants have shifted their emphasis from political principles to practical problems, much to the amusement of those they have pestered.
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Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen on June 23, 1995, announced a basic policy for Taiwanese contact with Hong Kong after China takes over the colony in July 1997. While the policy clears up some questions and permits most unofficial activity to continue unchanged, critics say it also tries to establish Beijing as the predominant partner in the relationship and cast Taipei as a supplicant, regional govt. The announcement comes at a time of strained ties and may represent a goodwill gesture.
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