of the Chinese Government agencies and nothing more. It might be
easier to define the office than the officer, e g Central Co-ordinating
Office for Chinese Government Agencies in Hong Kong, or words to that
effect. The representative would then simply be called the Officer
in charge of that office.
13. Our line of approach to the Chinese Government in our promised
reply, therefore, should be to explore the ground still further and
discuss with them the appointment of a Chinese Government represen-
tative in Hong Kong as part of a wider normalisation of relations
between Hong Kong and China, following on the normalisation of
relations between the Chinese Government and Her Majesty's Government
in the United Kingdom. The appointment should be contingent on
satisfactory agreements on through rail traffic, air links, and any
other existing anomalies or difficulties which we should like to take
this opportunity to rectify. All this will take time; that will not
matter. To maintain the political and commercial relations between
our two countries on a satisfactory footing, it will be sufficient
that there is an ongoing negotiation sincerely pursued on our side,
A fairly lengthy discussion will give the opportunity to prepare
opinion in Hong Kong for the changes that will eventually be made.
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SECRET
14. I recommend that these further discussions should be carried
on in Peking. It will be appropriate to inform the Chinese
Ambassador in London in general terms, but it is only those who
can be in direct daily touch with Chou En-lai, such as the Vice
Foreign Minister and Assistant Foreign Minister, who can carry on
a meaningful negotiation on such a subject.
subject. Our next move should
be made early in the New Year.
15. I am sending a copy of this despatch to the Governor of
Hong Kong.
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I have the honour to be Sir
Your obedient Servant
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CHINESE OFFICIAL REFRESENTATION IN HONG KONG
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As you know, when Chou En-lai brought up
the matter in Feking, the Secretary of State told
him that he would like to think about it and that
he would get in touch with the Chinese Foreign
Minister in due course. we subsequently talked
about this in Hong Kong. You left it with
Denis Greenhill that you would send us your views
about how the issue should be handled in the light
of the Secretary of State's undertaking.
2. The Chinese have not yet returned to the charge;
but we shall need to let the Secretary of state have
soon after Christras our recommendations about the
for his response to Chi Peng-fei should take. I
should therefore be grateful if you could let us
have your views by 10 January.
SECRET
Hong Kong and Indian Ocean Department
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1.
Please see attached record of my talk with the 'Portuguese
Ambassador.
2.
It was pretty clear to me that the Portuguese Ambassador was well
informed about the Chinese approach to us on repre- sentation in Hong
Kong. I doubt if what I said put him off the track. As regards
Portuguese negotiations with the Chinese I doubt if he was as ignorant
as he said he was.
4 December 1972
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CHINESE REPRESENTATION IN HONG KONG
In the course of a conversation with me on 30 November about relations
between Hong Kong and Macao the Portuguese Ambassador said that "he had
been told in the Office" that the Chinese had raised with Mr Royle in
May and more strongly with the Secretary of State during his visit the
question of Chinese representation in Hong Kong. I avoided so far as I
could giving any direct reply to this allegation, concentrating on the
fact that both the Chinese and ourselves were fully satisfied with
present relations between Hong Kong and China. I said that in the past
we had had considerable trouble with a KMT representative in Hong Kong
who had sought to establish a position for himself with the Chinese
inhabitants of the Colony.
This waв the sort of situation which we did not wish to face again and
there were in any case plenty of representatives of Chinese parastatal
bodies with whom we did business where the need arose. The Ambassador
did not press further. Finally I asked the Ambassador whether he was
aware of any efforts by his own Government to take advantage of the
present climate in Peking to seek closer relations. He said that he was
not but that of course the Chinese had a semi- official representative
in Macao who was a member of the Governor's Executive Council.
1 December 1972
SECRET
Mr.
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30 November 1972
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Rogers.
2.
As foreseen in the Governor's personal telegram to you No. 1078 of 17
November the Colonial Secretary spoke to the American Consul-General on
27 November immediately after his return from leave in the United
States. It was quite clear that neither Osborn nor his staff knew
anything of this suggestion, apart from the speculation they had seen in
the press, and more specifically that nothing had been said to Osborn in
Washington about the Secretary of State's message. He readily took the
point about the delicacy of this question and undertook to discourage
any members of his staff who showed signs of interest in it.
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personal message to Mr Rogers,
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I have now spoken to Al Jenkins on the lines of your paragraph 3 and the
last sentence of your paragraph 4. He confirmed that knowledge of the
content of the Secretary of State's message would in any case have been
restricted to a fairly limiteu circle. This was customary practice with
confidential messages exchanged between Mr Rogers and the Foreign
Ministers of other countries. Jenkins said he thought it would be best
not to send round any formal note about the point I had made to those
who would have seen Sir Alec Douglas-Home's messago since this would
only draw attention to Sir Alec's comment about Chinese representation
in Hong Kong. He thought it would be better to have a quiet word with
the one or two people in his department who had seen the message and
also to mention the point discreetly to Marshall Green so that he and
others higher up in the State Department who might have seen the
message, were aware of the delicacy of the section on Chinese
representation in Hong Kong. I said that having made our point to him,
we must leave it to his judgment to decide how best to handle it.
3.
Jenkins did not say specifically whether the US Embassy in London would
have seen the text of the mesango but I made it clear that we left it to
him to make our point to the mbacay 17 he thought it necessary.
4. Jenking added that reports of current Chinese interest in
representation in Hong Kong had come to the State Department from a
number of sources other than Sir Alec Douglen-Home's message. These
reports had been distributed rather more widely within the US
Government.
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29/11.
5. John Boyd has drawn my attention to an article by Gary Catron on Hong
Kong and Chinese foreign policy, 1955-60, in the China Quarterly for
July/September 1972. In this article there is a section about a Chinese
proposal 1955 (?) in 1965, for the stationing of a diplomatic
representative
in Hong Kong. Reference is made in the article to a difference of
opinion at that time between the British Chargé d'Affaires in Peking,
who considered the proposal a good one, and the Governor who "vetoed the
proposal". So the fact that this question has been an issue between the
Chinese Government and HMG in the past is a matter of public record. The
expectation, therefore, now that our relations with China are improving,
we may be pressed by the Chinese Government on this issue is presumably
not something which would cause any surprise to China watchers.
No.
R.E.
29/11.
Yours was
Jour
(J.C. Moberly)
Copied to:
Mr R.J. Stratton, Political Adviser, Hong Kong.
CONFIDENTIAL AND PERSONAL
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JC Maberly Esq
WASHINGTON
(FER 3/301/2)
22 November 1972
PERSONAL
CHINESE REPRESENTATION IN HONG KONG
1.
As you know, the Secretary of State mentioned the problem of Chinese
representation in Hong Kong in the personal message which he sent to Mr
Rogers insediately after his return from the Far East (700 telegram No
2279).
2.
With Antony Acland's agreement, I sent a copy of the message to the
Governor of Hong Kong. I now enclose a copy of the personal telegram
which he has sent me in reply (Hong Kong telegram No 1078).
3. I should be most grateful if, when you next see Al Jenkins (who told
me at the beginning of last week that he had seen a copy of the
Secretary of State's message), you would emphasise to him the importance
we attach to knowledge of the Chinese proposal being restricted to as
narrow a circle as possible. We are giving a restricted distribution
here to all papers which deal with it.
I shall not for the moment say anything to Oplinger, or anyone else, at
the American Embassy. I do not know whether the State Department will
have sent a copy of the Secretary of State's nossage to the Embassy; and
we have made a point of saying nothing to members of the Embassy about
the Chinese proposal. În speaking to Jenkins, however, you could perhaps
ask him to pass on a word of warning if, in his judgment, this might be
necessary.
5. I am sending a copy of this letter to Dick Stratton in Hong Tong.
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1. The Secretary of State sent a personal message to Mr Rogers on the
day of his return to this country from China and Hong Kong. With Antony
Acland's agreement, I now enclose a copy of the telegram to Washington
which contained the message. As you will see, the Secretary of State
alluded briefly to the problem of Chinese representation in Hong Kong.
RM Evans
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'COMMUNISTS WILL
NEVER TAKE OVER'
By CLARE HOLLINGWORTH in Hongkong
MR ANTHONY
ANTHONY ROYLE, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and
Commonwealth Affairs, said yesterday that both the Chinese and the
British were at present well satisfied with the political status of
Hongkong.
"There is no question of Hongkong being taken over by a Communist
régime," he told Chinese questioners at a Press conference at the end of
his five-day visit to the
Colony.
He thought that relations between China and Britain had reached a very
exciting stage.
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Not only had the two countries recently raised the level of their
diplomatic mis- sions, but there were firm orders from the Chinese for a
wide range of Butish aircraft in addition to the Anglo- French Concorde.
He emphasised that talks at a working level to improve land and air
Communications be tween Hongkong and China, as well as to extend the
tele- communications link, were in progress.
Hotel study
A Chinese delegation was in Hongkong to study the hotel business with
the ultimate objec tive of accepting tourists in China,
Mr Boyle dismissed some of the fears in the Hongkong busi ness community
about the pos sible adverse e ̋cts of Britain's entry into the Common
Market. His statement that there would never be a Communist take-over of
the Colony re- assured the two million Hong- kong Chinese, who were con-
cerned about their future as holders of British passports.
One of the most serious prob- lents the Colony Faced, Mr Royle
suggested, was the rising crime rate. He referred to the severe
Bentences which were being given in Britain for "mugging ind other
crimes of violence, contrasting them with light penalties in Hongkong.
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The newspaper emphasized that the opera's illustration of the
international nature of Chin- Western observers in Pekingese aid to
Kurth Korea in its are mystified by a sudden new emphasis on a
revolutionury drama. The Band of Whire Tigers, which deals with he
alliance of China and North Korea in the Korcan war.
The text of this revolutionary opera has recently been re- printed by
leading press organs and a film of it is being adver tised on Peking's
muin boulevard and elsewhere. However, a rep. resentative of the China
Travel Service in a main hotel said that Service in a main hotel said
that it was not being shown anywhere in the city and he did not encour
age a foreigner to try to see it.
Recently the People's Daily devoted all entire page to critical acclaim
for The Band of White Tigers, which is believed to have been produced
originally during the Korun war and was one of the few works which
continued to be shown during the Great ! Proleterian Cultural Revolution
fight ugainst the Americans, without raising the question of the United
Nions' role in the
war.
The People's Daily said that ' the sending of Chinese volun. teers to
Korea defended Chinese interests as much as those of 1 China's Korean
allies and empha. sized the friendship of the Chinese and Korean
peoples. It went out of its way to provide alternative formulas for
oaths of loyalty sworn by the "heroes: According to their nationality,
they put first either the name of Chairman Mao Tse-tung or that of
Narshal kim 11-sung, the North Korean leader.
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revisionism" the * messi- (Soviet Union) for its anic" and "aggressive"
foreign policy, specifically bringing up the question of the use of
tanks to quell othe, nations.
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liongkong. Nov 15-Me Anthony Rayle, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign
and Com monwealth Affairs, said in Hong kong today that there was no
question of a communist take over and that the Chinese Gov. ernment was
satisfied with the colony's present status.
He was answering questions at a press conference ai the and of a
four-day visit to the colony. Mr Royle was asked whether,
in the event of a communist take over, the two million or so Hong.
kong-bor: Chinese, who could qualify
British subjects. would be allowed entry into Britain.
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This is in reply to your letter of 11th August
1/102/
to Philip Haddon-Cave about air services to China. It is also by way of
apology for not replying sooner to your letter of 1st May. I can assure
you that careful note of it was taken at the time (I can recall seeing
it). but it then got rather buried on the file.
The position as we see it is as follows. Nothing can be done about
arranging air services to China until à formal Air Services Agreement
has been negotiated between HMG and the CPG. HMG have expressed a firm
desire to proceed with such negotiations but are still awaiting a firm
response from the CPG.
However, pending whatever happens on that front, we have taken note of
what you say in your two letters and, in particular, that you have a
positive interest in exercising your rights to operate regional services
to China should they become available; and we are passing this
information on to London.
To be perfectly frank with you, however, the acceptance of CPA as a
carrier to China, if services are eventually negotiated, will depend not
only on the attitude of HMG but on that of the other side as well. And
their reaction to services to Taiwan may, to put it mildly, be somewhat
different.
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Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd, Union House,
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Dear Philip,
Air Services to China
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Answer Back- aWIRE HKO Telephone: N-150011
11th August 1972.
I refer to my letter to you of let May, at which time
I confirmed 1-
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that in our view any traffic rights which may become available to a
U.K./H.K. carrier for the operation of regional air services between
Hong Kong and Canton or botween Hong Kong and any other points in China
should be available to Cathay Pacific, in that historically we are the
U.K. and Hong Kong designated carrier for those routes;j
that we have a positive interest in any such rights should they become
available; and
we do not believe that our operations to Taiwan should be considered sa
preventing C.P.A. from operating any available China rights.
Some montha have passed since I wrote the letter referred to above, and
it now occurs to me that it may be desirable for us to more formally
record our interest in some way, such as making formal application to
the Hong Kong Licensing Authority for the appropriate licence.
I would appreciate your guidance on this point.
a.a. Director of Divil Aviation.\
Yours sincerely,
(Signed)) D.R.Y., Bluck.
D.R.Y. Bluck Managing Director.