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VISIT BY HU YAOBANG, 8-12 JUNE 1986
In my letter of 21 May, I promised to send you a
draft spe_ech for the Prime Minister to use at her dinner
on 9 June for Hu Yao_bang, General Secretary of the
Communist Party of China. I now enclose a draft which
has been seen by our people in Peking and Hong Kong.
We have tried to tailor the speech to the audience,
and particularly to the sensitivities and likely pre-
conceptions of the Chinese guests. As foreshadowed in
my earlier letter, we have also attempted to highlight
some themes designed to leave General Secretary Hu with
the impression of Britain as a vigorous and innovative
society, addressing major political and economic issues
which are in fact very similar to those facing China.
We have also included some quotations, including one from
Shakespeare (in view of Hu's keen interest), and a
Chinese one, with the text in pinyin.
To re-inforce the impact of the speech we aim to
provide you next week (probably with the main briefing)
some conversational material for the Prime Minister's use