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CHINA AND THE GATT
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1.
Thank you for your letter of 11 November, in which
you asked whether it would be worthwhile having a word
with the Australians about their active encouragement for
a Chinese application for GATT membership. I am sorry
about the delay in replying.
2. I doubt if we shall be in a position to think of
changing, or even moderating, Australian views.
As you
say, their interests are quite different from ours, not
with China least because of the geopolitical relationship But we
certainly have an interest in letting the Australians
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know that we differ in approach and explaining why, along
the lines set out in the conclusions to our paper, with
particular emphasis on the undesirability of creating any for the Soviet Outh sort of Soviet precedent at a time when participation in
a new GATT round is being keenly discussed.
saying that while Chinese membership of the GATT is more
We would be
or less inevitable, it will continue to be of importance