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3.
the cost to Britain of scholarship
exchanges in the humanities and of
developing academic cooperation, which
the Chinese have proposed should be shared;
the cost of the necessary reinforcement of
staff in Peking.
The above three elements add up to a requirement
for additional funding from the British side
amounting to £440,000 in 1979/80 and rising to
£1,050,000 in 1985/86.
the attached schedule.
Details are given in
(Annex A).
5. By redeployment and cutting down on other
programmes, the British Council have already doubled
their budget for China in the current year (from
£60,000 to £120,000) to meet earlier Chinese
requests for extra exchanges; and the Royal Society
and Great Britain/China Centre have also made add÷
itional contributions. There is, however, a
limit to what can be done through the redeployment
of existing funds.
on this problem.)
(I attach at Annex B a note
I should therefore be grateful
for your agreement to our responding to the Chinese
proposals by the provision of the necessary
additional funds from the Contigencies Reserve
to the FCO's Grant in Aid to the British Council.
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