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SUBJECT:
PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT TO JAPAN, CHINA AND HONG KONG
1.
Thank you for your letter of 1 February. We
have a few preliminary ideas.
2. There will certainly be requests from journalists
to meet the Prime Minister before she leaves. We
have already had at least one approach from a Japanese
newspaper. We think that it would be as well to set
aside time both for a group of Japanese journalists
and a group of Chinese journalists. The form of any
such meeting could be decided later, but one possibility
would be to invite each set of journalists to submit
questions in advance and for the answers to be prepared
in advance, the interview itself being largely confined
to photographs and a few general comments. I do not
think that it would be possible to take both Chinese
and Japanese at the same time. There is also the possi-
bility of recommending that the Prime Minister grant an
exclusive interview to one Japanese newspaper or
television channel, and perhaps to a Chinese representati
There might also be pressure from Hong Kong journalists
/for an