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I agree that we should seek to dissuade the Portuguese from using the Troika to discuss Hong Kong.
Chinese are more than likely to react adversely and I can see no good coming from it.
2.
It will be easy to draw up a substantial agenda which
does not include Hong Kong.
Aler Loles.
Sir John Coles
9 January 1992
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1.
The Private Secretary's minute to Mr Appleyard of
8 January reports the Portugese proposal that at a meeting with the Chinese Foreign Minister on 18 February the Troika might raise Hong Kong and Macao.
2.
Macao is a much
I see considerable risks in this. smaller and simpler place than Hong Kong, and the Portuguese take their responsibilities there less seriously than we take ours for Hong Kong. Our discussions with the Chinese are correspondingly more intense, difficult and sensitive
than theirs.
3.
Particularly since Tiananmen, the Chinese have been paranoid about internationalisation of the Hong Kong problem, and we know that this remains one of their key concerns. Anything which fuels this paranoia makes it harder to do sensible bilateral business with them.
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