Separate interviews were conducted on Hong Kong TV with Lu Ping, director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council of the PRC and with Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten. Both gentlemen tended to fault the other for lack of cooperation. Lu Ping promotes the Preliminary Working Group and asserts that Patten has closed the door on Hong Kong civil servants meeting with the PWG. Patten says that the PWG is China's creation and that the Joint Liaison Group is the treaty established forum. You do not have to come yourself, do you? The Chinese side also made a number of statements about the status quo in Hong Kong.
Separate interviews were conducted on Hong Kong TV with Lu Ping, director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council of the PRC and with Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten. Both gentlemen tended to fault the other for lack of cooperation. Lu Ping promotes the Preliminary Working Group and asserts that Patten has closed the door on Hong Kong civil servants meeting with the PWG. Patten says that the PWG is China's creation and that the Joint Liaison Group is the treaty established forum. The Chinese side also made a number of statements about the status quo in Hong Kong.