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(a) A background paper on China;
) Tersonality notes;
(i) Mr Addis's despatch of 18 September on
Chinese foreign policy.
There are supplementary briefs on:
(A) Folitical relations between the UK and China; (b) Hong Kong matters including the issue of
Chinese representation in Hong Kong;
) Commercial relations between the UK and
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China;
(c) Cultural relations and other contacts between
the UK and China.
Purposes of the Secretary of State's Visit
4. The Secretary of State's purpose in visiting
China will be:
(In public)
(a) to make clear the importance Her Majesty's
Government attach to consolidating, and
building on, the improvement in relations
with the Chinese People's
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and to
maintaining the momentum in contacts and
exchanges with them;
(In confidential discussions)
(b) to continue the exchange of views on subjects
of mutual concern begun in the talks betweer
Mr Royle and Mr Ch'iao Kuan-hua, and to
obtain from the Chincse an account of their
interests and objectives in the world;
(c) to explain British policies in areas where
we and the Chinese have been pursuing
different objectives, eg Bangladesh and
Korea;
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