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ANY POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS. ON CAMBODIA LI HAD LINKED THE CURRENT IMPROVEMENT IN THE PROSPECTS FOR PEACE TO REALISATION BY BOTH THE KHMER ROUGE AND THE REGIME IN PHNOM PENH THAT NEITHER COULD BEAT THE OTHER. CHINA HAD NEVER SUPPORTED THE IDEA OF SOLE POWER FOR THE KHMER ROUGE. LI HAD DESCRIBED RELATIONS WITH VIETNAM AS RATHER LIKE THOSE OF THE SOVIET UNION, I.E. SIMILAR SYSTEMS BUT NO IDENTITY OF INTEREST. THE RECENT CHANGE IN VIETNAMESE LEADERSHIP WOULD HELP TO IMPROVE RELATIONS AND THE VIETNAMESE FOREIGN MINISTER WOULD VISIT PEKING IN SEPTEMBER. HOWEVER RELATIONS WERE NOT/NOT NORMAL AND THERE WERE NO PARTY TO PARTY LINKS.
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LI HAD SAID THAT ECONOMIC REFORM WOULD EVENTUALLY REDUCE THE OUTFLOW OF VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS. BUT FOR THE TIME BEING THE SITUATION WAS HARD TO CONTROL. LI PRESSED THE PRIME MINISTER TO RECONSIDER OUR POLICY OF FIRST ASYLUM. THE PRIME MINISTER EXPLAINED THE DIFFICULTIES (NEED TO IDENTIFY GENUINE REFUGEES, US VIEWS, ETC).
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THERE HAD BEEN A SHORT DISCUSSION ABOUT EC DEVELOPMENTS. LI HAD EXPRESSED RECOGNITION OF BRITAIN'S CONSTRUCTIVE ROLE IN RECENT MONTHS. LI PENG HAD SAID THAT RELATIONS WITH JAPAN WERE DEVELOPING, ALTHOUGH THEY WERE STILL INFLUENCED BY MEMORIES OF THE SINO-JAPANESE WAR. THE CHINESE HAD MADE IT CLEAR TO THE JAPANESE THAT THEY OPPOSED ANY EXPANSION OF JAPAN'S MILITARY FORCES.
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THE PRIME MINISTER HAD REFERRED TO HIS AND THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S EFFORTS TO SUPPORT PRESIDENT BUSH'S DECISION TO PRESERVE MFN STATUS FOR CHINA. IN REPLY TO YOUR QUESTION QIAN QICHEN HAD SAID CHINA HOPED TO COMPLETE THE CONSTITUTIONAL FORMALITIES FOR ACCEDING TO THE NPT BY THE END OF THE YEAR. THE PRIME MINISTER HAD LOBBIED HARD FOR CHINESE SUPPORT FOR A UN REGISTER OF ARMS TRANSFERS. LI HAD NOT RULED THIS OUT PROVIDED CERTAIN PRINCIPLES WERE APPLIED. LI HAD ALSO RAISED THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NEW WORLD ORDER ON THE BASIS OF THREE PRINCIPLES:
(A) THE RIGHT OF ALL STATES TO PARTICIPATE IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.
(B) THE FIVE (CHINESE) PRINCIPLES OF PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE SHOULD BECOME THE NORM.
(C) THE UN SHOULD BECOME MORE ACTIVE.
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