A pro-Taiwan trade union council will put Hong Kong's legal autonomy to the test by displaying two Taiwan national flags at its Double Tenth Festival celebration in Mongkok on Friday.
Speaking after an executive committee meeting last night, Lee Kwok-keung of the 28,000-strong Hong Kong and Kowloon Trades Union Council said he thought the display of Taiwan's national flag would be acceptable to the SAR Government as Hong Kong was under the 'one country, two systems' model.
The SAR Government has not said whether it will take legal action against groups which publicly hoist Taiwan's national flag.
Asked whether they feared prosecution for hoisting the flag in Hong Kong, Mr Lee said: 'It should be all right. It's a private dinner.
'We did that in previous years. The possibility is not big.' Asked if they thought the Government would accuse them of advocating 'two Chinas' or 'one China, one Taiwan', he said: 'The fact is that there are two political entities here.
'For several decades, we have been supporting this [Taiwan].
'We are not provocative. We only talked about the celebration activity because of the Double Tenth Festival. We would not mention it on ordinary days.' Although some members had suggested that the Kuomintang flag, instead of Taiwan's national flag, be hoisted at the Double Tenth Festival, the proposal was not adopted.