BACKGROUND
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1. The Chinese Foreign Minister will be a member of Premier
Hua Guofeng's entourage when he visits this country in October.
There are no plans before that time for any Government Minister
to visit China or for Mr Huang Hua to visit this country:
2. Mr Adley probably intends in a Supplementary Question to seek
confirmation of the Government's willingness to sell Harrier
aircraft to China.
He has been a strong supporter of this
deal for a number of years, and he has a constituency interest
in aircraft production. Mr Adley has already put such a
Question, as
as a Supplementary, to Mr Blaker on 13 June. In view
of the present visit by Mr Yang Yong, the Chinese Deputy Chief
of General Staff, there may be further supplementary questions
about defence sales.
3. The problem of Vietnamese refugees in Indo-China may also be
raised. The Chinese have already taken in over 230,000 refugees
from Vietnam.
It is uncertain whether the Chinese will attend
the Geneva meeting on the refugee problem on 20 to 21 July. In
their first reaction they told the UN Secretary General that they
would not attend unless the political aspects of the problem are
specifically included.
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