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Your telegram No. 1840. Chinese Policy towards
Hong Kong.
We have been very interested in the indicators
you refer to in paragraph 1. They point to
considerable uncertainty amongst the Chinese about
betoken policy towards Hong Kong and it may well be that thig
will result in attempts by the communists to
disengage.
2.
We agree, however, with the reading of the .
situation in Peking tel. No. 347 and are not convinced
have 人
that the Chinese how any desire to talk in general
terms about Hong Kong. It is possible that they
may in the near future be prepared to enter into
particular
some sort of exchanges about specific questions,
such as the deportation of prisoners, the release
of Grey or new border problems if they arise but it
seems to us doubtful that they will in the fore-
seeable future wish to go beyond this, since they
surely
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