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4. I do not know about my shipping colleagues, whom you have not yet had a discussion with. Our people on the civil aviation side, like us here, have a strong preference for no change or if that is not feasible some arrangement that fudges the constitutional/sovereignty issue, while appearing to give the Chinese what they want, and leaves the UK free to carry on running things like civil aviation service agreements where we represent HK interests internationally. ! No doubt Handley Stevens will be putting all this in his paper
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