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What I have said about the British subjects applies
IRD have regularly placed
material about Chinese maltreatment of British subjects and other foreigners in foreign newspapers both in Europe and in Afro-Asian countries. It has been suggested that the best targets would be those countries particularly in Asia and Africa with which the Chinese are anxious to have good relations, e.g. Pakistan, Cambodia, Nepal, Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia,' Guinea, Mali (see Mr. Haydon's minute of 25 September). We are however faced with difficulties in placing material
As the response to the except in Ceylon, Kenya and Zambia. "diplomatic initiative" showed many countries are prepared to deplore Chinese behaviour and sympathise with our difficulties but they are not prepared to make particular efforts which might jeopardise their own relations with China President Nyerere's negative response to
a fortiori to the foreign press.
Mr. MacDonald's plea for intervention with the Chinese is
a case in point.
7. The particular themes which Mr. Cradock has in mind (para. 5 of Peking telegram No. 836) would have varying appeals to different targets and might have to take a back seat compared with other examples of "man's inhumanity to
There man" which are at present engaging world attention.
is a difficulty about exploiting Chinese commercial sharp practice of which there have recently been a number of examples, namely that the information is almost always
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