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FM HONG KONG
TO IMMEDIATE FCO
TELNO 3862
OF 22113OZ NOVEMBER 89
INFO IMMEDIATE PEKING
INFO PRIORITY UKREP. JLG HONG KONG
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025046
MDHIAN 5637
PEKING TELNO 2032: PEOPLE'S DAILY COMMENTATOR ARTICLE
I SEE THAT THE INDEPENDENT OF 21 NOVEMBER CARRIES AN ARTICLE BY THEIR PEKING CORRESPONDENT, ANDREW HIGGINS, CLAIMING THAT THE COMMENTATOR ARTICLE REPORTED IN TUR ''SEEMED AIMED MAINLY AT
THE HONG KONG GOVERNOR .. WHO ENRAGED CHINA BY SPEAKING ABOUT
THE COLONY'S CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE DURING A RECENT TRIP TO THE UNITED STATES''.
2.
THIS IS NOT HOW I READ THE ARTICLE. SO FAR AS I CAN SEE ALL THE QUOTATIONS WHICH ARE ATTACKED COME FROM OTHER SOURCES, ALTHOUGH
I COULD BE INCLUDED IN THOSE GUILTY OF PLAYING THE QUOTE CONFIDENCE CARD QUOTE OR THE QUOTE PUBLIC OPINION CARD QUOTE.
3. IT IS ODD THAT HIGGINS SHOULD DRAW THIS CONCLUSION. I
SHOULD BE INTERESTED IF PEKING COULD DISCOVER WHETHER HE HAD
THIS INTERPRETATION PUT TO HIM BY ANY CHINESE SOURCE.
WILSON
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