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1. THE MAIN CHINESE AIM IS TO GET THE VISA OFFICE ESTABLISHED! AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, AND TO THIS END THEY ARE MAKING A SIGNIFICANT CLI MB-DOWN. THE CONSEQUENCES OF A REFUSAL OF THEIR PROPOSAL COULD BE QUITE SERIOUS.
2. WHILST THE OUTSTANDING POINTS MAY BE PUT TO ONE SIDE FOR THE TIME BEING UNDER THE CHINESE PROPOSAL, THEY WOULD NOT, I THINK, BE FORGOTTEN. THE CHINESE DRAFT MEMORANDUM STATES THAT TALKS SHOULD CONTINUE PENDING A ''PROPER'' SETTLEMENT (THE WORD USED IN THE CHINESE LANGUAGE DRAFT, TUOSHAN, PERHAPS TRANSLATES MORE CORRECTLY AS **APPROPRIATE''). QUITE HOW HARD THE CHINESE WOULD PURSUE THEIR OUTSTANDING REQUESTS WOULD NO DOUBT DEPEND INTER ALIA ON THE GENERAL DEVELOPMENT OF ANGLO-CHINESE RELATIONS. THEY MIGHT NOT PRESS HARD IN THE SHORT TERM BUT THE POTENTIAL BONE OF CONTENTION WOULD BE THERE AND COULD BECOME IRRITATING.
3. IT MIGHT THEREFORE BECOME NECESSARY IN THE MEDIUM-TERM FUTURE TO CONTEMPLATE LEGISLATION AS ENVISAGED IN PA'S LETTER OF 4 MAY TO CLIFT. AS SEEN FROM HERE, IT COULD BE HOPED THAT THE IDEA OF LEGISLATION MIGHT BE LESS CONTROVERSIAL AFTER THE VISA OFFICE HAS BEEN IN OPERATION FOR SOM TIME AND THE CIRCUMSCRIBED NATURE OF
ITS FUNCTIONS HAS BEEN VERIFIED IN HONG KONG,
4. 1 SEE THE CHINESE PROPOSAL AS, AT THE VERY LEAST, A MEANS OF DELAYING THE NEED TO LEGISLATE AND POSSIBLILY TO MAKE SUCH LEGISLATION AN EASIER TASK. IT REMAINS JUST POSSIBLE, HOWEVER, THAT WE MIGHT GET AWAY WITHOUR LEGISLATING AT ALL.
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