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one in UN terms as a means of persuading the Chinese that from their point of view a sort of "lease-back", terminable at only 15 years' notice, would be preferable.
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If you wish to develop the idea of adding an option based on what Sir P Craddock describes as "the Nine Point Proposal for Taiwan adapted to include continuing British administration", I should, of course, be glad to look at it, together with the text of the Nine Point Proposal.
7. Berrows
7 June 1982
F Burrows
Legal Counsellor
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