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On top of that, we had aid policies in Southern Africa in general and towards blacks in South Africa in particular which were very closely aligned. The basic disagreement was about sanctions, and there I did not detect any feeling in London that it was time to relax further or any feeling in Ottawa that it was time to add more sanctions. Kinsman did not dissent. On Hong Kong Kinsman felt that there might be awkward differences because he saw us as having to claim that everything was going reasonably well, whereas the Canadians were busy taking a much more serious view of recent developments in China and their implications for Hong Kong. I said that we did of course have to talk regularly to the Chinese about practical questions in Hong Kong, but that did not prevent us from making very clear what we thought was helpful and what not. Against that background, I did not think that it need be a problem for us if the Canadians, as major investors in Hong Kong,
make their concerns clear to the Chinese. Again, Kinsman did not dissent, but I wonder whether there was anything more to his raising the question with me?
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