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IISS CONFERENCE IN HONG KONG
1.
Thank your for your teleletter of 16 March.
2. We have made some enquiries with the IISS.
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Segal is out of
the country until 29 March but we will speak to him then.
March meantime, we have spoken to Jim Hoare who is on secondment to
IISS. He told us that as far as he knew, the Chinese had not yet
responded to the invitation. It was not clear whether this was
deliberate or simply slow Chinese bureaucracy. The Chinese
Embassy in London/are aware of the event. Hoare told us that he
had been present at a meeting between Segal and a member of the
Defence Attache's office who had rebuked Segal for his comments
in print about a possible break-up of China, but had not said
anything about the conference, other than to ask how it was
(Segal cafiorial that in a convertir rite
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29 March, which had not
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