SAVING
Hong Kong
SAVING
SECRET
HONG KONG
Peking
Washington POLAD Singapore
Files FED
Hong Kong
Sir S. Tomlinson
Sir E. Peck
PEKING, WASHINGTON, POLAD SINGAPORE
Your tolegram No. 588: Sino-British Relations.
We have taken careful note of the points in para-
graph 3 of your telegram under reference. It would
indeed be regrettable if the Chinese were to conclude
from your policies over the past few months in Hong Kong
that we were susceptible to pressure. Seen from here,
however, the policies have appeared an effective combi-
nation of firmness and flexibility, indeed a successful
balancing act of the kind in which, as you rightly
comment in your telegram No. 855 of 5 July, 1968, the
Hong Kong authorities are not inexperienced.
2. We foresee that we here may well be in for a
difficult time over the other British subjects, who are
likely to become a matter for increasing public
concern if the Grey affair is resolved, While it may
be, as you say, that their predicament is connected with Hong Kong events only in the sense that they are
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