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15 September, 1982

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Prime Minister's Visit to Japan and China

Thank you for your letter of 14 September.

There is no problem about the new timings for the reception for the British business community and the lunch on 23 September. As regards the media, we should prefer the Prime Minister's interviews with British radio and TV reporters to be in Peking, taking up to 45 minutes after the return banquet, rather than in Shanghai. If necessary, these interviews should take precedence over the one with the Radio Peking reporter, who could be fitted in at some other time.

As regards the programme in Canton, please, as you suggest, try to arrange for an earlier departure. The Prime Minister agrees to visit the Dunlop site and the Cable and Wireless site (and agrees to plant a tree at the latter).

The Prime Minister was told at yesterday's briefing meeting that Eric Sharp of Cable and Wireless will be in China at the time of her visit. She would like him to be invited to the return banquet which she is giving in Peking. Could you kindly arrange for this.

John Holmes, Esq.,

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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