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Dr D Wilson Political Adviser
Government Secretariat
HONG KONG
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7 March 1978
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Many thanks for your letter of 24 February. I am afraid that in haste I tended rather to use shorthand in letting you know of our proposed exercise on "the China dimension", I had, of course, taken account that the last review of the "China dimension" was embodied in the first part of the Planning Paper on Hong Kong. It was in part because the social developments proposed in the Planning Paper are now completed or in the pipeline that we here have started thinking about what skuld be the next step. Our first decision was that in any future papers about the developments in Hong Kong we should separate the social development aspects from the political side. I am not, nor ever was, convinced of the logic of lumping them together in one large portmanteau paper and I believe that in any future work the two should be considered in parallel certainly, but separately. This does not mean that we do not appreciate any great significance of the social aspects in the whole framework of "the China dimension" but that it will be much easier to look at the social programme on its own. For your own information whatever we produce on the social and economic side will not be in any sense a "Planning Paper" Whatever we produce will be in a very much lower key, obviously of a lower classification and certainly done with a very much greater degree of Hong Kong/ Whitehall co-operation than was the case in 1976.
2. As far as the China dimension paper is concerned, I was of course well aware that the Governor had undertaken to produce a paper before he retired. I was with him and the Secretary of State when the offer was made. If the timing of the two papers coincides, then of course we would expect to incorporate his work in any such future paper. If not, then I would hope that our paper will be of help to him in the production of his opus.
3. You can be assured that you will be consulted on the draft at a very early stage, as will the Embassy in Peking.
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Sir E Youde (Peking)
(Peking)
Mr R C Samuel (FED)
Mr K Walker (Assessment Staff,
Cabinet Office)
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