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think Ministers should at least know that long ago we explained in detail and in writing/
rt we believed the UK course to be wrong, that we have received no answer except that it is not proposed to alter the UK's course, and finally no suggestion has been made that Hong Kong for its part should alter course, nor has any reason been given it for doing so. All this seems to me totally inconsistent with the sort of way we have worked to conduct Hong Kong's relations with the UK.
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Moreover if things take the course I fear, people here will expect me to speak out. This again is exactly what I do not want to do, and would not need to do if either the thesis we have put forward were answered or the UK was able to reconsider its policy.
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I should add as a sad footnote that it is particularly unhappy that this collision looks like taking place, for reasons which I am convinced are ill- founded, at a time when Hong Kong is doing its very best to increase UK trade in Hong Kong, and also at a time when the Financial Times is reporting the increased profits made by UK textile companies.
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