BRITISH EMBASSY, PEKING
DEPARTMENT OF TRADE
1 VICTORIA STREET
D Jeaffreson Esq
Secretary for Economic Services
Government Secretariat
Lower Albert Road
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27 June 1979
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RERIVED IN REG STRY NO. 51
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REVIEW OF POPLE BETWEEN LONDON AND HONG KONG
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In the intervals of our negotiations here in Peking T have been doing some further work on the study of the route between London and Rong, Hong, on which you and I started the ball rolling
earlier this year.
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assistance, 1 have now completed the paper that we promised on the international implications of introducing competing services on this route. We have mumbered this Paper No 7
The Paper takes into account what
We have heard
I attach a.cony. about the formal applications by RCAL and Laker to the CAA and the information about Chinese reactions that I gleaned from my informal talk with Lu Ruilin last Saturday (23 June). It may therefore need to be up dated in the light of subsequent information and subsequent thinking. However, I thought it best to send it off to VOU now, rather than wait for further embelishment. It will
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There seems
Some doubt,
now, whether the review will be proceeded with.
Even if it is abandoned, however, believe this systematic analysis of the international implications of introducing the variousS forms of competition which have been mooted will be of
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