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GRS 200
CONFIDENTIBAL
FM HONG KONG
CONFIDENTIALUP COPY
TO DESKBY 090800Z FCO
TELNO 1768
OF 09023OZ JUNE 86
ENFO IMMEDIATE PEKINNG
AKRON/
RECEIVED IN REGISTRY
12 JUN 1986.
ANDE
LISTRY
t: Taken
-YOUR TELNO 1073: EXCHANGES WITH THE CHANESE ON STRUCTURE OF
GOVERNMENT
1. YOUR PARA 1. THANK YOU. WE WILL PLAN ACCORDINGLY.
2. ON PARA ↳ SHOULD MAKE ONE COMMENT ABOUT THE JLG GENERALLY.
AT HIS TRUE THAT WE HAVE TOLD THE CHINESE THAT FURTHER DISCUSSION ON
THE STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT ETC. CAN TAKE PLACE IN THE JLG BUT IT IKS
ALL A MATTER OF TIMING AND OF WHAT EXACTLY IS TO BE DISCUSSED
THERE. IF WE THINK THE TIMING IS WRONG (AS WE DO ON THRS SUBJECT
AS FAR AS JLG HY IS CONCERNED) WE SHOULD NOT PULL OUR PUNCHES (N
TELLING THEM SO. BY THE SAME TOKEN WE SHOULD NOT BE AFRAID OF MAKING
CLEAR TO THEM THE DANGERS OF GETTING INTO DISCUSSIONS OF ISSUES
LIKE SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE WALLED CINTYN THE JLG. YOU WILL SEE
FROM MY TEL ON THE ATMOSPHERE IN HONG KONG AT THE PRESENT TIME
(MY TELNO 1767) THAT THERE IS AN AUR OF PESSIMISM AND ''JIITTERYNESS''
HERE. WHAT WE NEED OUT OF JLG BY THIS ANNOUNCABLE, PRACTICAL ACHIEVEMENTS AND NOT HEADLINES SUCH AS ''CHINESE FORCE BRITISH TO
BRING REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT BACK TO THE JLG'' OR 'STAND-OFF -
OVER KOWLOON WALLED GĦTY''. THAT KIND OF RESULT WILL ONLY NUDGE
THE CONFIDENCE FACTOR A FEW MORE POINTS DOWN THE SCALE AND WE
SHALL BE DOING NEITHER THE CHINESE NOR OURSELVES ANY SERVICE F.
WE DO NOT BRING THAT HOME TO THEM.
YOUDE
LIMITED
HKD
FED
PS
(REPEATED AS REQUESTED)
PS/ MR RENTON
PS / PUS
SIR W. HARDING MR WILSON
CONFIDENTIAL
Q64.