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SECRET AND PERSONAL
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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London SW1A 2AH
R D Clift Esq
c/o Dr D C Wilson
Government Secretariat HONG KONG
Telephone 01
233-4381
4512.
Your reference
Our reference
Date
21 November 1980
Dear Dick
LONG TERM FUTURE OF HONG KONG
1.
I have discussed all this with Alan Donald and Robin McLaren on the basis of the draft outline paper which I submitted to Alan. This was an amalgam of my earlier draft and your notes. I enclose a much shorter version which deals only with the options. Alan's view is that the paper for Ministers will need to be short and snappy and will have to omit all the usual assumptions about British interests, Chinese interests etc. necessary, these can all be covered by annexes or separate papers which would not necessarily need to be submitted to Ministers.
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2. Alan thinks you should discuss the enclosed outline with both David Wilson and the Governor, although he realises that you will be pressed for time between the arrival of the bag and your departure. If Sir Murray is generally content with the outline, Alan
suggests that he might take the opportunity of Percy Cradock's visit to Hong Kong to discuss it with him. We would find it invaluable to have their informal comments on it. Alan Donald believes that it would only then be necessary to go to Teddy Youde with it. Once we had his agreement to the outline, we would then put it formally to Hong Kong and Peking for their approval and only then start writing the full paper.
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