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5. AS TO ACTION THE CHINESE WOULD TAKE TO UNDERMINE OUR GOING AHEAD UNILATERALLY, THEY COULD THREATEN THAT THEY WOULD AFTER 1997 INSIST THAT THE SARG DE-CORPORATIZE RTHKC. WE THINK IT
LIKELY THAT IF THEY MADE KNOWN THEIR OPPOSITION AND MADE SUCH A THREAT WE MIGHT FIND IT DIFFICULT TO STAFF THE CORPORATION. IF WE WERE PREVENTED FROM GOING AHEAD, IT WOULD BE LIKELY TO BE ON GROUNDS OF STAFFING DIFFICULTIES RATHER THAN THE RESULT OF A DECISION TO ACCEPT CHINA'S VIEWS ON THE CONTRAOL OF RTHKC.
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