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craft would surely send a most damaging signal to the Chinese about the willingness of the British Government to maintain Hong Kong's defences.
5. I shall be writing to the Governor of Hong Kong urging his interlocutors to take a reasoned and reasonable position in their discussions with your team over the DCA in early December. I very much hope that your team will be going to
Hong Kong with the aim of securing an agreement of this utmost uppermost
I stand
in their minds. Further acrimonious discussion or indeed a breakdown in discussions is in nobodies interests. ready to assistance in anyway I can.
RA Burns
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