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there will equally be a need to reduce the risk of friction and strain caused by extraneous matters where British interests conflict with those in Hong Kong. Recent difficulties over the Defence Costs Agreement and the EEC textile negotiations, although inevitable, temporarily affected our relations and would have made the promotion of policies set out in this paper more difficult.
30. There is also a need to continue strongly to advocate Hong Kong's case here, a role in which the Office will need to continue to act in dose
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cooperation with the Hong Kong Government Office. The policies advocated in this for cannot provide a
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export successes (and not excluding a desire to advocate one or other side in the ideological differences between Peking and Moscow), seek to pressure Her Majesty's Government to move faster than the problem allows. It will remain as necessary strongly to support the Hong Kong case and to counter false allegations about its Government as in the past; but obviously our ability to do so will depend upon the degree to which the reforms suggested in this paper are implemented there.
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