LOND PRIVY SEA
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Dear Malcolm,
24 February 1982
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It is always a great pleasure
Thank you very much indeed for an extremely good lunch today which I enjoyed enormously. to talk about China with you.
As I told you, I would of course be very happy to have a talk about Hong Kong and the future with Mr Fung King Hei and you whenever this proves convenient.
You also floated the idea of a number of British/Hong Kong businessmen endeavouring to sponsor a British cultural, in particular a musical, engagement to coincide with the Prime Minister's trip to China next September. I know that British orchestras have in the past visited Peking with great success. the finance for such an event could be raised privately we in the Government would do all we could to help make the appropriate arrange- ments(subject of course to the usual difficulties of operating in Peking). May I leave it to you to come back to us if and when such a proposal seems a runner?
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25 New Street Square London EC4A 3AP
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