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24 MAY 1967
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YOUR TELEGRAM NO 398: MEASURES AGAINST CHINESE.
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IF YOU EXPEL ACTING CHARGE D'AFFAIRES AND OTHER MEMBERS OF CHINESE CAFF THE CHINESE WILD OF COURSE DE DOUND TO RETALIATE. APART FROM
#SELF THEY ARE LIKELY TO CONCENTRATE ON CHINESE SPEAKERS. THE
RESULT WOULD OF COURSE BE TO REDUCE DRASTICALLY THE EFFECTIVENESS
CF THIS MISSION AT A PARTICULARLY VITAL POINT IN CHINESE HISTORY AND
ASO WITH REGARD TO HONG KONG IN ANGLO-CHINESE RELATIONS. IS THIS
WHAT WE WANT?
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2. I REALISE THE NEGD TO MAKE SOME RETALIATORY GESTURE, BUT I MUST
WTH RESPECT POINT OUT THAT IN THE GAME OF DIPLOMATIC WARFARE THE
CHINESE CAN TRUMP OUR EVERY CARD. THEY CONTROL EVERYTHING HERE, AND
THEY PROBABLY DO NOT MUCH CARE HOW RESTRICTED THEIR STAFF ARE
ABROAD. I THEREFORE FIND IT VERY DIFFICULT TO THINK OF ANY EFFECTIVE
ETALIATORY MEASURE WHICH WOULD NOT REBOUND MORE HARDLY ON
CURSELVES AND REDUCE THE EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF THIS MISSION.
3. AS SEEN FROM HERE THE MOST EFFECTIVE STEP AND THE LEAST DAMAG-
ING TO OUR INTERESTS WOULD BE ACTION AGAINST CNA. I WOULD
PREFER GRADUATED ACTION AS PROPOSED IN MY TELEGRAM NO 560 BUT IF
YOU FEEL IT IS ESSENTIAL TO DO SOMETHING MORE DRASTIC I WOULD DE
REPARED TO RICK THE CONSÏQUENCES OF COMPLETE CLOSURE, THE DIS-
CARMICE OF REUTERS HERE WOULD BE NO GREAT LOSS TO US (NO
REFLTCTION ON T
ENDED). IT IS POSSIBLE
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