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Thank you so much for your letter of 20 December 1982.
I was very glad that you were able to come to dinner in
November and I much appreciated the views you expressed
then on China and Hong Kong.
If I may say so, I think your remarks to Ambassador
Crai
i Zemin hit just the right note, particularly your
point about preserving Hong Kong's stability and
prosperity.
The Ambassador's remarks about being 'flexible on all
other matters', were we to recognise Chinese sovereignty,
are encouraging as far as they go. But I believe they
still fall a long way short of a really satisfactory
package. The present Chinese ideas appear to envisage
an autonomous, capitalist style Hong Kong under China's
control. This is the scheme of which the Chinese are
currently spreading word, but it does not, it seems to
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me, offer/genuine guarantees whatsoever that Hong Kong's
offer genui
confidence in a free
stability and prosperity, let alone the people's/way of
life, would be preserved.
Finally, I note with interest what you and the
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/Ambassador