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VIII) Basic Law.
IX) Joint Liaison Group.
X) Civil aviation:
Dragonair Airlines (DAL).
(This brief has been agreed with the Department
of Transport, but DTP
DTP are also working on a
brief for Sir Y K's meeting with Mr Ridley
on
19 March, and may wish to amend the present
brief as they think things through.)
XI) Ningbo Steel Project.
2.
Most of these briefs are for
raises the subjects concerned; but
use only if Sir Y K Pao
i t would be very
useful
i f the Secretary of State could get across to Sir Y K the
point made in the first brief, on representative government,
that i t i s important for our informal dialogue with the
Chinese on this subject to be a two-way affair: we need to
know as much as possible, and as early as possible, about
how Chinese thinking on this is developing, especially in
the context of their drafting of the Basic Law. Sir Y K Pa o
might be asked to suggest this thought in Peking. On the
scholarship fund, it would be useful if the Secretary of
State could Sound out Sir Y K on the latest Chinese
position, to assist in briefing the Prime Minister for her
meeting with him on 21 March.
3.
I also attach personality notes on Sir Y K Pao and
Mr Li Ka Shing, and a record of a conversation at the Chief
Secretary's lunch with Sir Y K on 28 February.
4.
As well as the meetings with Mr Ridley on 19 March and
the Prime Minister on 21 March, Sir Y K Pao is having lunch
with Mr Renton, also on 20 March. We have been asked to
supply briefs for these meetings.
useful if you could let me know as soon as possible of any
I t
would therefore be
significant exchanges which the Secretary of State has with
Sir Y K over the weekend.
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