TNAG-0742-FCO40-946-Relations-between-China-and-Hong-Kong-1978 — Page 128

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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You asked on the telephone the other day whether the Foreign and Commonwealth Office could provide you with a copy of a statement made by General Chiang Kai-Shek in which he referred to the Treaties concluded between Britain and China after the Opium War as "unequaled". I have not been able to trace the statement you referred to without further details. The General did make it. clear, however, in a book called "China's Destiny" that Hong Kong was considered to be an integral part of China and that it was expected that ultimately it would be returned to the fold. for your information, enclosing a copy of a speech made by President Chiang on August 24 1945, the last paragraph of which refers to the status of Hong Kong as he saw it.

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I am sorry not to be more helpful, but if you can give us any more details of the declaration by President Chiang you referred to originally, I will gladly try to trace it.

PS Collecott

Southern European Department