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DID HOWEVER ADDRESS A MEETING AT CHATHAM HOUSE ON CHINA'S BASIC
DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL POLICIES. HE SUBSEQUENTLY ANSWERED
QUESTIONS AND LATER GAVE A PRESS CONFERENCE. ON THESE OCCASIONS
HE STRESSED CHINA'S NEED TO SLOW THE VERY RAPID PACE OF RECENT
DEVELOPMENTS TO A SPEED THAT WAS STILL FAST AND WHICH COULD
SUBSEQUENTLY BE RE-ACCELERATED.
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5. IN TALKS WITH MINISTERS THERE WAS AGREEMENT THAT BOTH SIDES
WERE SATISFIED WITH PROGRESS ON HONG KONG. THERE WAS A GENERAL
EXCHANGE ON EAST-WEST RELATIONS AND THE PROSPECTS FOR A FURTHER
UNITED STATES/SOVIET UNION SUMMIT AS WELL AS CHINA'S RELATIONS
WITH THE SOVIET UNION. THEY TOOK NOTE OF THE DAMAGE THAT HAD
FOLLOWED THE NUCLEAR ACCIDENT AT CHERNOBYL.
SINO-SOVIET RELATIONS HU SAID THAT ECONOMIC EXCHANGES WERE GOING
RELATIVELY SMOOTHLY, AND THAT BILATERAL TRADE SO FAR THIS YEAR
WAS AT HIGHER LEVELS THAN PLANNED. SO FAR AS POLITICAL RELATIONS
WERE CONCERNED, HOWEVER, THERE WAS NOT THE SLIGHTEST SIGN OF ANY
IMPROVEMENT. CHINA WAS SINCERE IN WANTING TO IMPROVE RELATIONS
BUT THE SOVIET UNION ONLY INDULGED IN EMPTY TALK AND UNFRIENDLY
ACTIONS. THERE WAS NO SIGN OF ANY MOVEMENT ON THE THREE
OBSTACLES: CAMBODIA, AFGHANISTAN, AND SOVIET FORCES ON THE
CHINESE BORDER. BOTH SIDES LOOKED FORWARD TO THE QUEEN'S STATE
VISIT TO CHINA IN OCTOBER AND TO FURTHER EXCHANGES OF ALL SORTS
AND AT ALL LEVELS.
6. IN GENERAL, THE CHINESE SEEMED TO USE THE VISIT TO TRY TO
SHOW THE CONSTRUCTIVE, OPEN NATURE OF MODERN CHINA, WHILE STILL
STRESSING ITS COMMUNIST BASIC PRINCIPLES. HU'S ANIMATED AND
OUTGOING PERSONALITY WAS EVIDENT AT BOTH PRIVATE AND PUBLIC
OCCASIONS, AS, FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN HE HANDLED WITH APLOMB DIFFICULT
QUESTIONS AT CHATHAM HOUSE ON TIBET AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA.
7. IN ANSWER TO QUESTIONS MASEFIELD CONFIRMED THAT THERE HAD
BEEN DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN MEMBERS OF HU YAOBANG'S PARTY AND
APPROPRIATE MINISTERS, PARTICULARLY MR WALKER AND MR CHANNON'S CALLS
ON LI PENG AND DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN ZHOU NAN AND MR RENTON.
MASEFIELD CONFIRMED THAT THESE LAST DISCUSSIONS HAD INCLUDED HONG
KONG, WHICH WAS ONE SUBJECT AMONG SEVERAL BILATERAL MATTERS
INCLUDING CLAIMS, AIR SERVICES, THE STATE VISIT, ETC. AS A
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