Mr
Hum,
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Confidence in Hong Kong
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The Secretary of State was grateful for the thoughts in your minute of 9 June, which he thought were very much on the right lines. Three particular points struck him:
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(b)
(c)
the need to get the general message well enough understood within HMG, so that we are more likely to get helpful responses on policy questions such as DCA, Vietnamese refugees etc with good grace.
The need to make the PRC more aware of how to read and react to, or influence confidence factors.
The risk that an approach concerted with the Chinese could look bad in Hong Kong (i.e. Britain and China ganging up) unless it was extremely carefully handled.
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13 June 1988
Cc:
PS/Lord Glenarthur Mr Gillmore
Mr McLaren
Mr Meyer, News Dept
Mr Cooper, FED Mr Teasdale
Libe
(R N Peirce)
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