Two Hong Kong pan-democrats pass protest letters to Beijing official at banquet sidelines
They say they hope to start a dialogue and deepen communication with the central government on city’s governance
Two Hong Kong opposition lawmakers held a brief meeting with a Beijing official on Friday on the sidelines of the banquet for visiting President Xi Jinping in which they voiced their concerns at the “distorted” implementation of the “one country, two systems” policy.
Dennis Kwok of the Civic Party described the 15-minute chat with Huang Liuquan, deputy director of the State Council’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, as a “start” but “far from enough”.
“I hope they will interpret us going to the dinner as a gesture in which we are willing to lay the foundation for further dialogue with the central government,” Kwok said, referring to the banquet hosted by outgoing Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying on Friday night at the Grand Hyatt hotel.
There were nine pan-democrats among the 300 at the event.
“If they really care about Hong Kong the way they say they do, they have to deepen the dialogue [with pan-democrats] to make it a systematic dialogue rather than the sporadic and unsystematic one that we have right now.”
