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Date:
7 July 1993
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To:
Peter Ricketts, Hong Kong Dept, FCO
Fax No:
270 3387
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With customarily well-developed self-interest, I have been wondering whether to request that the Secretary of State should touch lightly on the 'Jardine problem' when he is in Beijing. I am
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at this meeting with Qian will be brief, and there are on. But we do continue to experience problems both in ou to CTG. If it were possible to slip in a very brief referen.. be worth doing in the presence of Jiang Enzhu and might consist of three elements:
t would help us. It would only
the Secretary of State knows that I have been in Beijing recently to explain Jardines views.
we have given helpful support to the negotiations.
he hopes that any remaining problems between China and Jardines can be speedily resolved.
I can well understand that this would not fit easily into the official briefing and might not be universally welcome. But would it be possible to fax this letter to the Private Secretary and for him to show it to the Foreign Secretary en route to Beijing?
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