to
eed to void any gratuitous changes which might be taken
aply now or in the foreseeable future any change in the
onstitutional relationship between Britain and Hong Kong.
he Chinese would be equally disturbed if they concluded
rom any changes that HMG were trying to create an independent
ntity which was intended at some future point to acquire a
uridical life of its own: a "third China" would be
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xtremely objectionable to Peking and likely to provoke a
igorous reaction.
Both the Governor and HM Ambassador in Peking have
onsequently concluded that our interests, both internally
In Hong Kong and in relation to the People's Republic of
hina would be put at serious risk by a change in
umenclature; and strongly recommend that the present
efinition of CUKC be maintained as it stands.
NĖRA KA
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