D/ENERGY
D/ENERGY T H.S.
CODE 18-77
No.01 834 3771
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5 SEP 1985
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SECRETARY OF STATE'S ARTICLE FOR WEN WEI PO
Mr Morphet Mr Freeman 0.1 Mr McGregor
Mr Alty -DTI Mr Barton
FCO
1. You told me that the Secretary of State had undertaken to write an article for this magazine, which is published in Hong Kong on Sino-British relations, and invited me to provide paragraphs on the Daya Bay power station.
2.
I attach a draft. You should bear in mind, however, that this power station is not an example of collaboration on energy matters (it is to be engineered by the French, and operated by
The collaboration is the Chinese on Chinese territory).
essentially political, in handling the electricity needs, and
tical sensitivities of the people of Hong Kong. Nevertheless, ld probably be odd if the article omitted all mention of roject whatever.
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3. I have not cleared the attached text with DTI and FCO. shall try to do so as a matter of urgency and telephone any comments to you. In addition, FCO, Mr David Barton, Hong Kong Department, Tel. No. 233-3988, Fax. No. 233-3244 or 233-2417) have asked for a chance to comment on the article as a whole in draft. I hope that you will be able to meet their request.
I understand from Miss Johnson that the article is due to published around [11 October Fortunately, that fits easonably well with the timefable for the signing of the
Daya Bay contract.
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