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OUR PECOPDS OF JI'S PUBLIC PRONOUNCEMENTS DO NOT REPEAT NOT
SUGGEST THAT JI HAD SAID THAT THE BRITISH HAD NO RIGHT TO SET UP
DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS WHICH WOULD SURVIVE AFTER 1997. COPIES OF
ALL PUBLIC SPEECHES MADE BY JE IN HONG KONG ARE REING DESPATCHED TO
YOU AND THE MOST SIGNIFICANT ONE GIVEN AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE ON
21 DECEMBER IS IN OUR TELNO 2877.
2. THE BASIS FOR SANAVIA'S ASSERTION APPEARS THEREFORE TO BE HIS OWN SPECULATIVE THOUGHTS ON WHAT JI MIGHT HAVE SAID IN PRIVATE, COMBINED WITH AN EXTREME INTERPRETATION OF HIS PUBLIC COMMENTS. (BONAVIA HAS CONVINCED HIMSELF THAT THE UK HAS WASHED ITS HANDS OF HONG KONG AND LOOKS FOR EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THIS NOTION).
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