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8.

In the noentine, we have no intention of breaking diplomatic

relations:

this would in any case not help in securing the withdrawal of

nembers of the Mission. We are also doing nothing to curtail trade,

though the recent arrest of a British engineer working on a project in

north-west China is hardly an encouragement to other firms, who might

be considering undertaking projects in the country.

Foreign Office,

October, 1967.

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