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of the questions you raise are, as you say, primarily the responsibility of the DTI and I understand that they will be

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In this letter I thought I should take up the points you

made about Hong Kong. I am very glad that you thought so well

of Tom Aston. We also share your view of Murray MacLehose's

success as Governor. In your comments on projecting the British

point of view in Hong Kong you come to a difficult question. As you suggest, there are some in Hong Kong who have "tunnel vision". They are conscious of the colony's economic success

and contrast this with what they think is the decline in the British economy; and they are quick to suspect that Hong Kong's interests are being neglected by HMG or overridden by British

interests. In this situation it is certainly undesirable that

But it is not the United Kingdom case should go by default.

easy to decide just how far to go. Hong Kong is a British colony and the Governor is The Queen's Representative there.

He has to ensure that Hong Kong's legitimate interests are

/represented

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