From the Private Secretary
Dear John,
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Future of Hong Kong
The Prime Minister was grateful for the minute of 3 September by the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary. and the enclosed special study which she has read with interest.
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Danald Six l. Sinclair
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As you know, the Prime Minister did not wish to hold an OD discussion of this question before her departure for the Far East. Instead, she would like to hold a restricted Ministerial meeting early next week. She hopes that the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary, the Home Secretary, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Secretary of State for Defence and the Attorney General would be free to attend (arrangements are being made separately with their offices). I should be grateful if you could arrange for the Attorney General to receive a copy of the special study before the weekend.
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In order to clear her mind about certain aspects of the study before the Ministerial meeting, the Prime Minister has asked that Lord Maclehose and FCO officials should be invited to a meeting tomorrow. This is in hand separately.
I should be grateful if you could bring to the attention of FCO officials who will be attending tomorrow's meeting the following points which the Prime Minister has so far raised in relation to the study: -
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Paragraph 4 states that the Chinese are "acutely aware of the economic benefits which they derive from Hong Kong and of the need to preserve it as a capitalist entity
The Prime Minister
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has asked what evidence there is that they are indeed "acutely aware" of the need to preserve the capitalist structure of Hong Kong.
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