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designed ''to safeguard Hong Kong's unique character' but to remove their own dirty washing from the line and in particular to avoid attacks by the Soviet Union etc on their ''prostitution''.
changed?
(e) Para 16, penultimate sence: surely ''this'' has already
The Chinese are no longer prepared to live with the colonial status quo indefinitely.
(f) Para 17:
t t
may I suggest ''ideological'' instead of 'idealistic'', and at an
and at an early stage''
''early stage'' instead of sooner or later'!
(g) Para 19 carries an internal contradiction, which the
insertion of ''only' before ''advantage'' in the second sentence would remove.
(h) Para 22:
''accommodated'' might be better than ''managed''.
(i) Paras 23 and 24: surely para 24 amplifies the Chinese
demand in para 23 rather than adds to it.
20 August 1982
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PA B Thomson
Far Eastern Department