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Your telegram No 135: Hong Kong Annual Report.
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2 We sympathise with the view that the improvement in Hong
bossible
Kong and signs of ar
improvement in Sino-British
relations ought not to be prejudiced by what appears in the
are not conview that Annual Report, but we do not (repeat not) a wider that the
text as drafted will have this effect (particularly as amended
in your telegram under reference).
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The Chinese have already made a major shift in policy by
renouncing violence and virtually admitting the campaign last
year was a failure. We do not think that the repetition of a
facks few widely known historical will cause them to change
their policy again. Nor do we think that the report by itself
to the improvement of
will create a stumbling block which would have bad effects-
Sino-British relations in the same way as a serious incident
in Hong Kong almost certainly would.
B. We therefore agree that the Report should be published as
drafted with the amendments contained in ärafted
your telegram no. 135.
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