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PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT TO HONG KONG: LETTER TO THE PRIME
MINISTER FROM DR JEREMY BRAY MP, LABOUR MEMBER FOR MOTHERWELL
AND WISHAW
Problem
1. To reply to a letter of 6 September from No 10 Downing Street
attached enclosing a letter to the Prime Minister from Dr Jeremy Bray MP.
to 234A
Recommendation
2. I recommend that the Private Secretary reply on the lines of
the attached draft, which covers a draft reply to Dr Bray.
Background and Argument
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3. Dr Bray is a member of the Anglo-Hong Kong Parliamentary
Group. His brother, Denis Bray, is Secretary for Home Affairs
in the Hong Kong Government and a former Hong Kong Commissioner
in London.
4.
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Dr Bray envisages the expansion by China of the existing
Special Economic Zone (SEZ) adjacent to the New Territories, and
the eventual integration of the economies and systems of the
expanded SEZ and Hong Kong. This would amount to the gradual
absorption by China of Hong Kong. But what is not clear is when
this would happen, at which point British administration would
cease and how confidence is to be maintained in the meantime.
8 September 1982
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Hong Kong and General Department