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SC Riordan Esq British Embassy PEKING
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Dear
Chann
Your reference
Our reference
WAYALB
Date
8 May 1989
HONG KONG AND MACAO AFFAIRS OFFICE (HKMAO) MFA. PERSONALITY
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NOTES
Thank you for your letter of 25 April enclosing the personality notes you have drawn exercise.
up.
This is a most useful
2. I have a couple of suggestions to offer:
i)
Guo Fengmin:
recent visit
ii)
iii)
you may wish to add a reference to his to Hong Kong.
Ye Shouzeng: former member of the JLG Hu Chuanzhong: a drafting point: in the second para, I assume the passage from the second sentence onwards ("Speaks good English...") refers to Hu, rather than to his wife. Presumably a new paragraph should begin there.
3. I recognise that the Embassy S contacts with the HKMAO of the State Council are much less frequent than with the MFA.
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Nonethel ess I wonder whether you would be able to perform a similar exercise for the State Council? Perhaps Graham Leicester could also try his hand at notes on members of the Chinese JLG Office?
Yours ever,
Chris
C T WOOD
Hong Kong Department
cc:
GH Leicester Esq UKREP JLG Hong Kong
RC Wilson Esq GDB, Hong Kong
RAJ Bunten Esq APA(G), Hong Kong
KC Walker Esq Reseach Dept, (FE)
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