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flag. This was a long-term policy and not a matter
or expediency. L
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Similarly China had once made an agreement
China had promised
with the Dalai Lama over Tibet
the Dalai Lama that for a considerable period there
would be no reform in Tibet. China kept its promise.
Only when the Dalai Lama had betrayed his country
and fled did China berin reform. If he had not fled
in 1950. even now no reform would have been carried
out in Tibet. That was a policy formulated by Chairman
Mac and the policy of the Chinese Government. China
would not show bad faith. Lord Carrington could
tell investors that they could set their minds at
ease. On other aspects China could not say much. It
must be borne in mind that China had one billion people.
Lord Carrington said it was not the British:
Government or he personally who wished to be assured
of the authority with which the Vice Chairman spoke.
It was that nebulous concept, public opinion. He
asked only that the Chinese Government should study carefully the state of public opinion in Hong Kong)
He could not say more than he
Deng said he knew by zo'
be the
had already said. He had already said enough
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