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Washington telno 1148, your telno 714 and Hong Kong telno 828: POSSIBLE BILATERAL BETWEEN THE SECRETARY OF STATE AND THE CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER
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The Secretary of State was grateful for the advice in your TURS. He is entirely happy with the advice and agrees that we should keep open the possibility of a bilateral in Peking on 9 July, while making no approach to the Chinese Government for the time being.
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2. We shall need to look at the timing of an approach again following the next round of Hong Kong talks. Presumably we should approach the Chinese by the third week of June or SO are not to risk leaving it too late to fix a meeting. In the meantime it would be helpful if, as you suggest, you can find out discreetly whether Qian is likely to be in Peking on the date
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