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WASHINGTON: China's Hong Kong chief C.H. Tung's roadshow to convince global partners it's business is usual in the former British Colony has drawn no applause from politicians here, and is likely to make little headway with President Clinton Friday. TIME White House correspondent. Jef McAllister notes that Tung's plan to cut the number of eligible Hong Kong voters from 2.7 million constituents to 180,000 representatives of "functional constituencies" was sharply criticized by Sen. Jesse Helms as "undemocratic" and "unacceptable." McAllister predicts "Tung will have an equally difficult meeting with President Clinton...
WASHINGTON: In the campaign finance hearings' first long look at the other side of the aisle, eager Democrats spent the day grilling Benton Becker, lawyer for Hong Kong real estate developer Ambrous Tung Young. Becker readily described how erstwhile GOP think tank The National Policy Forum was used to funnel campaign donations from Hong Kong real estate developer Young and other foreign nationals to state GOP organizations. Becker maintained today that the RNC was well aware at the time that the money originated from a foreign company, making Young's donations illegal under US law. (The money was finally returned...
...Clinton meeting had had its Republican counterpart just two weeks earlier, when G.O.P. chairman Haley Barbour pleaded his case aboard the yacht of Hong Kong tycoon Ambrous Tung Young. Barbour had offered Young a voice in shaping U.S.-China policy for the new think tank of the G.O.P.'s congressional majority. And by the way, Barbour added, the party needed a favor. Could Young forgive what remained of a $2.2 million loan that his overseas firm had guaranteed so the Republican Party could stop pouring money into the think tank and pour money into campaigns instead...
...waters. Martin Lee's mainstream democrats will continue to demonstrate gently in order to educate the public about the need to preserve and protect the rights they enjoy. Since dissent is a fact of life in Hong Kong, the incoming government has little choice but to let it continue. Tung has declared publicly that he will avoid making martyrs of those who protest before some 8,000 journalists staked out on handover night. The Chief Executive and his Beijing superiors are well aware that televised images of repression in the streets of Hong Kong would deal a lethal blow...
...troops into Hong Kong just six hours after it regains control over the British colony, sparking fears among democratic activists that a crackdown on civil liberties cannot be far behind. Although the planned deployment would roughly match current British troop levels, today's announcement by the incoming government of Tung Chee-hwa was met with derision by colonial Governor Chris Patten. He warned that the sight of armored cars in the streets on July 1 would send "a very bad signal to Hong Kong and the rest of the world." To reach their barracks on Hong Kong Island...