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TELELETTER - CORRECTED VERSION
FROM: R.J.T. MCLAREN, POLITICAL ADVISER, HONG KONG
DATED 18 MAY 83
TO: R.D. CLIFT ESQ., HKGD, FCO
COPIED TO: M. ELLIOT ESQ., FED, FCO
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A.C. GALSWORTHY ESQ., HM EMBASSY, PEKING
NEW NCNA DIRECTOR
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PLEASE REFER TO OUR TELS NOS 680 AND 702. THE SPEAKING NOTE WHICH
TAN GAN HANDED OVER REFERRED TO XU JIATUN AS ''DIRECTOR'' OF NCNA
HONG KONG, AND NOT FIRST DIRECTOR' WHICH WAS WANG KUANG'S TITLE. I ASKED TAN WHETHER THIS WAS A DELIBERATE CHANGE, AND HE CONFIRMED THAT IT WAS. HE ALSO SAID THAT LI JUSHENG WOULD REMAIN THE NO 2
IN THE HIERARCHY. THERE WERE NO IMMEDIATE PLANS TO CHANGE HIS
PRESENT TITLE (''SECOND DIRECTOR'') BUT EVEN IF THIS DID CHANGE, LI JUSHENG'S STANDING WOULD NOT. TAN COULD NOT SAY EXACTLY WHERE
LI CHUWEN AND CHEN DAMING WOULD COME IN THE HIERARCHY OF DEPUTY DIRECTORS.
2. TAN ALSO CONFIRMED IN PASSING THAT ANOTHER DEPUTY DIRECTOR
OF NCNA, MR XIE WENQING HAD LEFT HIS POST AT VERY SHORT NOTICE
AND WAS NOW ACTING MINISTER FOR BROADCASTING AND TELEVISION.
IN ANSWER TO MY QUESTION, TAN REFUTED LOCAL PRESS SPECULATION THAT WANG JUANG MIGHT STAY ON IN HONG KONG IN SOME ADVISORY CAPACITY. ACCORDING TO TAN, WANG WOULD DEFINITELY LEAVE HONG KONG AS SOON AS HIS FAREWELL CALLS AND FUNCTIONS WERE FINISHED.
HKGD REGISTRY PLEASE PASS TO FED.
SIGNED R.J.T. MCLAREN
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