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TRANSCRIPT B; FORBIGE SEC P.C.
HONG KONG
4 JULY 1989
FORBIGE BECRETARY:
Tus, two things.
(Laughter)
SAXE NA:
I only asked for onel (Laughter)
FOREIGE BECRETARY:
1 am allowed to offer two answers to the question!
The first one: the United States has joined with the rest of
the world in condemming very vigorously what has happened in Peking
and China and in taking measures we have all done in the European
Community to break off high-level contact, ban arms sales and to
restrain new deals from the Yorld Bank and so on and that is fine.
But I think the United States would be prudent to avoid going
further down the road towards economic sanctions.
I am quite curtain that the most secure way of being able to
re-establish contact of a sensible kind with a sensible leadership
in Peking is to retain the prospect of economic relations with each
other. I say that not just because it is of enormous importance to
Hong Kong. Hong Kong would be gravely damaged if the United States
were to engage in economic sanctions.
That is point
· still less other countries
I believe that it would be wrong for their own sakes.
number one.