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hundred extra Chinese students to Britain a year, on top
of 1200 now studying in British universities and colleges
already unprecedented number. Scheme not only meets
specific objective of both governments. Also highlights
important general themes in our flourishing relationship.
on which seal will be set by HM The Queen's State Visit
*
to China this October.
Scheme, like relationship, is:
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Forward looking, because majority of scholarship
will be in science and technology. Will help us to
collaborate in meeting great technological challeng
now facing us all;
Forward looking too because scholars will help
next generation to build on friendships and co-
operation we have established.
Scheme also shows we are:
6.
Confident and committed to making most of
opportunities for collaboration..
Making our
efforts not just now, but investing heavily in
future.
Also inventive. Both have deeply held
principles. But willing to put them to work in
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creative, if necessary unusual, approaches to
practical objectives.
Scheme is first time we
have pooled efforts with another government in
this way.
Another example of these qualities:
Agreement on Hong Kong. Continued stability
and prosperity of Hong Kong such vital
Baklystad We and
commitment
you are displaying
HK has to be
covered in this peech,
without
assuming a disproportionate role. I am happy for the subject to be introduced in this way, but think M. Ashton's draft has 2 defects:
(is it is too briaf
Liis it makes too much
of YK Pao, which is
wel [toptoying qualities quite unjustified
for both our governments. Fitting that Hong Kong Where
I have_just_mentioned in ] working together to implement our Joint Declaration Delighted I have attempted
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people this instance Sir V K, should bring-us
it
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redraft / expansion. I
that process is going smoothly. Fully confident that it will continue to do so. Important that don't think we need
together in other ways too.
up
to and
we should remain in close contact I boyand 1997 in JEG and elsewhere. That is
what people of His want and expect. Not really surprising that these qualities govern
our relationship. Also apply to own domestic policies.
on HK
go any further for this speech.
* Believe we contime to display political imagination
in this
this process &
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Both understand that we are now facing new industrial
revolution. Need to harness forces of change, not be
buffeted by them. Separated by our different historical
and economic circumstances; but brought together by equal
commitment to thorough modernization of complex and
excessively rigid economies. And both made impressive
progress.
Your first visit here. Want you to leave on
Thursday with impression of Britain as society on the
move; society exchanging divisions and waste of yesterday
for enterprise and technology of tomorrow. Always been
good at winning Nobel Prizes; now turning pioneering
ideas into prosperity.4 Building a society that, like our
relations is forward looking, inventive and confident.
FED/RD(FE): to provide an example of British
inventiveness with Chinese connotations producing wealth/prosperity.