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9. IN ANSWER TO A QUESTION ABOUT POSSIBLE JAPANESE ECONOMIC DOMINANCE, QIAN SAID HE HAD HEARD OF IDEAS FOR A ''PAN-PACIFIC'' ECONOMIC AREA CENTRED ON JAPAN BUT COULD NOT BELIEVE THEY WERE
• PRACTICAL. ASIA DID NOT HAVE THE CONDITIONS FOR AN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY WHICH EXISTED IN EUROPE. ITS ECONOMIC STANDARDS VARIED TOO WIDELY FROM RICH COUNTRIES AND NICS TO SOME OF THE WORLD'S POOREST AND MOST BACKWARD, AND INSTEAD OF EUROPE'S CLEAR TWO-WAY DIVISION IT HAD THE MOST NUMEROUS AND VARIED REGIONAL CONFLICTS OF
ANY PART OF THE WORLD.
10. IN A CLOSING EXCHANGE, QIAN SAID SINO-BRITISH RELATIONS HAD REACHED A NEW HIGH AFTER THE JOINT DECLARATION BUT WENT WIDER THAN THE QUESTION OF HONG KONG. HE WAS SATISFIED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF
RELATIONS IN ALL FIELDS.
DONALD
YYYY
ΜΑΙΝ
LIMITED
FED
HKD
NAD
SOVIET
SEAD
NEWS
INFO
NNNN
75
;
DISTRIBUTION
75
PS
PS/MRS CHALKER
PS/LORD GLENARTHUR
- MR
GILLMORE
MR FRETWELL
MR MCLAREN
MR FEARN
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