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Para 14:
Amend first sentence to read 'Even if the Sino-Soviet dispute were to end or at least to be reduced in intensity (since the prospects of a complete Sino-Soviet rapprochement are remote given deep-rooted mutual distrust, the sharp difference of views on Afghanistan and Cambodia and the Soviet military presence on China's northern borders) there seems little reason to think that Sino-Soviet rivalry in SE Asia would end.'
Para 15:
:
Second sentence: Amend 'suspicion' to 'resentment' and
3 after 'maritime power' insert 'slowly'.
Passim
Peking, not Beijing, please.
12 November 1982
CC:
Mr Donald (WH323A)
Mr Burns (SEAD, W83A)
Mr Broomfield (EESD, W101A)
Mr Clift (HKGD, WH307A)
Miss Marsden (Planning Staff, K115) Mr Beel (Research Dept, G53/3) Assessments Staff, Cabinet Office
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MarkChick
Mark Elliott
Far Eastern Dept