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DATE: 26 July 1983
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In your minute of 20 July to Mr Clift you said that Mr Luce would welcome a check list of others besides Lord Shawcross who have a degree of influence in China and who might be able to help indirectly on the Hong Kong problem.
2. Whilst it is difficult to assess the influence of individ- uals who have had dealings with the Chinese over the years, and therefore uncertain how they might be able to help, the following have developed connections of one sort and another in China:
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Lord Maclehose (former Governor of Hong Kong)
Lord Trevelyan (President, Great Britain-China
Centre; former Chargé d'affaires, Peking)
Lord Nelson of Stafford (former President, Sino-
British Trade Council)
Lord Rhodes (leader of several Parliamentary
delegations to China)
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Lord Shepherd (adviser to Hong Kong group Sun Hung Kai)
f. Lord Chalfont (has visited China several times)
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Sir John Addis (Chairman, Great Britain-China Centre;
first British Ambassador to China after 1949)
h. Mr Hal Miller MP (former Hong Kong Government
officer; has had discussions with senior Chinese on the future of Hong Kong).
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