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YOUR TELEGRAM NO 19: US CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION TO CHINA
1. NO TEXT IS AVAILABLE OF WOLFF'S REMARKS, BUT THE STAFF WHO ACCOMPANIED HIM TELL US IN CONFIDENCE THAT HE SPOKE CASUALLY AND
DID NOT INTEND TO IMPLY THAT THE CHINESE HAD SAID ANYTHING OF
SIGNIFICANCE ABOUT HONG KONG.
2. THE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION SAW CHANG CH'UN CH'IAO, AND
WERE TAKEN THROUGH THE STANDARD CHINESE LINE ON THEIR MILITARY PREPARDNESS AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION, THE IR INTENTION NEVER TO SEND TROOPS OUTSIDE CHINA AGAIN (KOREA HAVING BEEN AN ABERRATION) AND THE IR INTENTION TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT LIBERATION MOVEMENTS,
3. WOLFF'S REMARKS AT HIS PRESS CONFERENCE SEFM TO RELATE TO
CASUAL DISCUSSIONS HE HAD WITH THE LOW LEVEL FOREIGN INSTITUTE
ESCORT WHICH ACCOMPANIED THE PARTY. WOLFF ASKED ABOUT TAIWAN
IN THE CONTEXT OF NORMALISATION OF RELATIONS WITH THE US.
AND WAS GIVEN THE STANDARD REPLY TO THE EFFECT THAT THERE CAN
BE NO NORMALISATION WITHOUT FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SHANGHAI COMMUNIQUE, WOLFF WENT ON TO ASK, EN PASSANT, ABOUT HONG KONG, AND WAS TOLD THAT WHEN THE LEASE WAS UP IN 1977 IT WOULD REVERT
TO CHINA.
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