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REPEATED FOR INFO PRIORITY PEKING (PERSONAL FOR AMBASSADOR)
PRIORITY HONG KONG
Future the BRIEFING THE AMERICANS
key 1. You may use the following to bring your senior official
contacts up to daten a stictly enfeiential basis
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3. Our present strategy is to continue to induce Chinese to concentrate on detailed discussion of practical measures
essential to Hong Kong's stability and prosperity.
3. The sixth round of Sino-British talks on 14/15 November was
again described in an agreed statement as 'useful and
constructive'. The next round wil 1be on 7/8 December, again in
Peking.
The
4. Thlá November round was heavier going than the last. Chinese firmly
made an uncompromising restatedent of their position on all matters of principle. Although they fleshed out some of the details of their proposals for Hong Kong as a Special
Administrative Region (SAR) of China it is clear that these are
Tel. sout.
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