HKB301
- 3 AUG 1990
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Private Secretary
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FROM: P A Major
Hong Kong Department
DATE: 1 August 1990
cc: PS/Lord Caithness
Mr McLaren
Mr Cooper, Planners
Mr Mower, News Dept
Mr Seaton, FED
Mr Lidington
Mr Fraser
SECRETARY OF STATES ARTICLE ON HONG KONG FOR THE TIMES
1. We have two comments of fact on the draft article attached to your minute of 1 August. In paragraph 5, the reference in the fourth sentence should be to 18 seats (not 20) and the fifth sentence should refer either to the
"passports package" or the "Nationality Bill".
2. You will have seen Hong Kong's and Peking's comments on the earlier draft. The only ones of these which apply to the Secretary of State's draft are as follows:
a) paragraph 6: Hong Kong suggest that the eighth sentence should read "Guangdong province's export industry now owes a lot to Hong Kong investment". Peking propose adding "Equally Hong Kong draws significant benefit from its close relationship to Guangdong and other coastal provinces. In Guangdong more people work for Hong Kong manufacturing firms than do so in Hong Kong itself."
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