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Mr Adley spoke in much the same vein on the BBC 2 Newsnight
programme on 11 July and in a recent radio interview with
Hong Kong. He also told Mr Luce that he had been asked to write
an article for 'The Guardian'. In the circumstances, and given
Mr Adley's position as Chairman of the British Chinese
Parliamentary Group, it would be useful if the Secretary of State
was able to see him and explain:
(a) that HMG is confident that an agreement will be reached
over the future of Hong Kong without detriment to our
bilateral relations with China, and
(b) that we are taking a realistic approach based on the need
to look to the future rather than the past, but that
(c) confidence in Hong Kong demands that we are seen to
negotiate for an arrangement which genuinely preserves a guarantee against Chinese interference, which we do not believe would be provided by Peking's public proposals.
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R D Clift
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Hong Kong Department