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5. ON FINDAY 13 OCTOBER WE THOUGHT THAT HR HUANG WOULD WANT TO GO
OUTSIDE LONDON AND POSSIBLY SEE SOMETHING OF OUR EDUCATIONAL AND
SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS. AGAIN, WE SHOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF MR WANG HAD PARTICULAR PREFERENCES. ONE POSSIBILITY WAS A VISIT TO CAMBRIDGE, PERHAPS WITH AN OVERNIGHT STAY IN A COLLEGE.
6. CORTAZZI STRESSED THAT THESE IDEAS ONLY REPRESENTED OFFICIALS' INITIAL THINKING AND THAT WHAT WE WOULD LIKE WAS A VERY EARLY INDICATION OF CHINESE PREFERENCES, SO THAT WE COULD TAKE THEM INTO ACCOUNT IN SUBMITTING A PROGRAMME,
7. AS FOR THE CONTENT OF THE TALKS, ALTHOUGH THERE WAS NO NEED TO AGREE A FORMAL AGENDA, IT WOULD BE NECESSARY TO HAVE SOME AGREEMENT
ON THE ORDER IN WHICH SUBJECTS WERE LIKELY TO COME UP. THERE WOULD
CLEARLY DE A NUMBER OF POINTS OF MUTUAL INTEREST IN ANGLO-CHINESE RELATIONS TO DISCUSS. SO FAR AS INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS WERE CONCERNED, THERE WERE PERHAPS THREE BROAD CROUPS OF TOPICS:-
(A) EAST-WEST RELATIONS, DEVELOPMENTS IN EUROPE, DETENTE, DISARMAMENT
AND DEFENCE MATTERS.
(B) AFRICA, INCLUDING RHODESIA AND NAMIBIA, AND THE IMPLICATIONS..
FOR EAST-WEST RELATIONS OF THE INVOLVEMENT OF OUTSIDE POWERS. (c) ASIAN MATTERS, RANGING WIDELY FROM CHINA'S RELATIONS WITH HER
NEIGHBOURS AND NEAR NEIGHBOURS, VIETNAM, ASEAN, INDIA, PAKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN, AND THUS TO IRAN AND THE MIDDLE EAST, AND
ESPECIALLY CHINA'S RELATIONS WITH JAPAN.
8. A NUMBER OF OTHER MATTERS WERE ALSO DISCUSSED SUCH AS ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE PRESS, INTERPRETATION AND WHETHER MR HUANG WOULD BE ACCOMPAN- IED BY HIS WIFE.
9. CHU UNDERTOOK TO PUT THESE POINTS TO PEKING AND SEEK INSTRUCTIONS
WITH A VIEW TO AN EARLY FOLLOW UP MEETING IN THE FCO.
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