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As I told you on the telephone, I had lunch with Y K Pao today.
The following points arose.
2.
He expressed concern about the movement towards representative
Government, concentrating on the introduction of elections to LEGCO.
He thought we were going too fast. What would happen when there was
a fully elected Council? How would it be controlled? Would there
not be a risk from Taiwan elements?
The Hong Kong electorate was
still naive. He made it plain that he was expressing not only his own
concern but that of the Chinese.
3. On the Basic Law, he took me to one side to tell me that the Chinese
would like him to be Chairman of the Basic Law Consultative Committee.
Though professing indifference, he was obviously interested. He would be
consulting his frineds, including the Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary
and the Governor about his response. He would be visiting China again
in late October.
4.
5. He said he would like to see Sino-British relations made even
better, and suggested we might take more Chinese students. The Chinese
would be ready to take more of ours in return. Again he intimated that
he was speaking with the knowledge and support of the Chinese.
raise this point also with the Prime Minister next week.
contracts would help the cause.
He may
I said more
A C Galsworthy Esq
Hong Kong Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office London SW1
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