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DSR 11 (Revised)
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SUBJECT:
VISIT TO CHINA, HONG KONG AND JAPAN
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1. When I visited Peking in April, I told the Chinese with your agreement that you hoped to visit China during
1982, as a return for Hua Guofeng's visit in 1979.
sure that a visit to China would be an excellent move in
the context of our relations with China and our inter-
national position as a whole, and I believe that a visit
to Japan at the same time would be essential and would
have almost as great importance. I know that you have it
in mind, subject to your other commitments, to carry out
this visit in September 1982, and we have tentatively
earmarked the period between 16 and 29 September.
2.
Humphrey Atkins will be in both Peking and Tokyo
in the first part of January, and can expect to be asked
about possible dates for your visit. Unless he can give
a rather more precise reply that I was able to, there
is a danger that our preferred month of September may
become congested with other visits, both for the Chinese
and for the Japanese; indeed we have heard that Mr Suzuki
may himself be contemplating a visit to Peking in September. I suggest therefore that during his visit
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/Humphrey