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Hong Kong Department
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HONG KONG: LATEST CHINESE SCARE TACTICS
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1. I thought it would be worth pulling together in one place vaht. the specific points the Chinese have made recently in the
mounting war of words.
Public Statements
(i) Zhu Rongji at Chatham House. The full text of what he
said (according to an NCNA transcript) is "people cannot help asking the question of whether we still have to stick to the Joint Declaration and whether the understanding reached
between the two sides is to be allowed to be scattered to the
winds". This is accurately summarised in our telno 919 to
Peking. (You will note that, contrary to initial reports in
the British press, Zhu was probably referring to the secret
undertakings of 1990 not the Joint Declaration as being
scattered to the winds).
(ii) NCNA statement on the airport, 13 November. "The Chinese side solemnly points out that should Britain violate the
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