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Mr Dary
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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FEC 026/11
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4 January 1982
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Dear John
Mr. Willington
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See HRR 026/5
1982
Prime Minister's Meeting with Sir Y K Pao:
17 December 1981
Thank you for your letter of 18 December. -attached
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Sir Y K Pao quotes Vice Premier Gu Mu as saying that he had never been to the United Kingdom, and Sir Y K enquires whether it would be possible to invite him here, possibly in February. As Sir E Youde told the Prime Minister on 23 December, we would not recommend going firm on a specific invitation until we are clearer about what we would be able to say to him if he were to raise the question of a large- scale loan. There is already an open invitation to him on the table, first extended in July 1980. As far as we are aware Gu Mu did not mention this when Mr Rees saw him before Christmas in Peking. When the Lord Privy Seal is in China he proposes to renew in general terms the invitations extended over the last year or two to a number of Chinese leaders. But he is not due to meet Gu Mu and will not wish at this stage to make any specific proposals about dates.
Lord Carrington welcomes the Prime Minister's idea of a working meal with the Chinese Ambassador. He thinks that it would be best to hold this in the run-up to the Prime Minister's visit to China, when there will be specific matters to discuss. To see Mr Ke Hua cold at an earlier stage is unlikely to be productive; his instructions would allow him little leeway and an invitation from the Prime Minister would lead the Chinese to expect that she had proposals to make. He would come prepared
to listen but not to discuss.
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A J Coles Esq 10 Downing Street
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(R MJ Lyne)
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