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BUT HE
INVOLVEMENT IN LOCAL POLITICS. IF IT WERE A MATTER OF SOMETH! PRACTICAL ARRANGEMENTS COULD BE MADE. IF IT WERE A MATTER OF THE NAME, HE HOPED THAT THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT WOULD RECONSIDER. NOTED THAT THE MATTER WOULD BE RAISED WITH DR OWEN.
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COMMENT. IN RAISING CHINESE REPRESENTATION HUANG HUA APPEARED TO BE SPEAKING TO A PRE-ARRANGED BRIEF. THE DISCUSSION CLEARLY AROSE CUT OF MENTION OF IMMIGRATION AND CHANNELS OF COMMUNICATION. ALTHOUGH WE CANNOT BE CERTAIN OF THIS, IT DID NOT APPEAR TO BE A REACTION TO ANY NEW ISSUED RAISED BY THE GOVERNOR EARLIER WITH DENG
XIAOPING.
5. IT IS TIRESOME OF THE CHINESE TO REVERT TO THIS ISSUE, ON WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN SILENT FOR SOME TIME. BUT SINCE THE GOVERNOR PARRIED HUANG HUA'S REMARKS AND YOU ARE NOT VISITING PEKING FOR THE MOMENT, I THINK THAT WE CAN WAIT FOR THE CHINESE TO MAKE THE NEXT MOVE. THE GOVERNOR MAY HOWEVER WISH TO ADD SOMETHING TO THIS COMMENT ON
HIS RETURN TO HONG KONG.
CRADOCK
FILES
HK & GD
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PS/LORD GORONWY ROBERTS
FS/PUS
SIR A DUFF
MR.CORTAZZI
MR. MURRAY
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