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FROM FED
MIPT: VISIT BY HU YAOBANG: OBJECTIVES
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HU'S VISIT WILL BE THE FIRST EVER BY A PURELY PARTY LEADER.
WE HAVE BEEN CONSIDERING HOW THIS SHOULD AFFECT OUR OBJECTIVES.
2. OUR PRELIMINARY INCLINATION AT DEPARTMENTAL LEVEL IS TO AIM
FOR A MORE PHILOSOPHICAL "EMPHASIS THAN FOR PREMIER ZHAO'S VISIT.
THE`FOCUS THEN RIGHTLY WAS ON FRACTICAL ASPECTS AND OPPORT-
UNITIES OF OUR RELATIONSHIP, PARTICULARLY IN TRADE AND TECH-
NOLOGY. TAKEN TOGETHER, HU'S POSITION, HIS PERSONALITY, LI'S EDUCATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND THE CHINESE REQUEST FOR A STRONG
CULTURAL ELEMENT OPEN THE WAY FOR A DIFFERENT APPROACH.
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ONE SPECIFIC POSSIBILITY IN WHICH WE SEE MERIT WOULD BE FOR
DISCUSSIONS WITH THE PRIME MINISTER TO INCLUDE THEORETICAL/IDEO- LOGICAL ASPECTS OF BRITISH AND CHINESE POLITICS AND CULTURAL
OUTLOOKS. THIS WOULD NOT BE WITHOUT RISK IF HANDLED UNSYMPATH-
ETICALLY. BUT A CAREFUL EXPOSITION OF ENTERPRISE CULTURE, HIGHLIGHTING PARALLELS AS WELL AS DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BRITAIN AND
ཝཱ སོ ཝུཏྟཏྟཾ ཏི ', རཱ ཙ ཝཾ བྷ, པ མཱམཱུ བྷཱ CHINA MIGHT BE STIMULATING FOR HU, DRAW HIM OUT MORE THAN LESS OPEN-ENDED EXCHANGE AND LEAVE A DEEPER, MORE POSITIVE
IMPRESSION OF BRITAIN.
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4. EDUCATION WILL FIGURE PROMINENTLY IF THE SINO-BRITISH
SCHOLARSHIP FUND CAN BE FORMALLY LAUNCHED DURING THE VISIT. WE
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