DSR 11 (Revised)
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Sir Yue-Kong Pao CBE LLD JP World Wide Shipping Group 20/21st floors, Prince's Building HONG KONG
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Thank you for your letter of 8 February. Peter Carrington
has told me of your recent meeting in Manila. I am afraid
it is still too early to say whether or not I shall be abl
to launch the ship you are building in Shanghai when I
visit China in September.
As you know I would like to
do so if it can fit in with the rest of the programme.
But planning is still at an early stage, and we do not
yet know what the Chinese will want to include I shall
be their guest and of course do not wish to presume on
their hospitality. Let us keep in touch on this.
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As for the invitation to Vice-Premier Gu Mu, Peter Rees,
Minister for Trade, renewed this when he saw the Vice-
Premier on 12 December. Humphrey Atkins also mentioned
it to Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Canming when he was in
Peking last month. We now wait to hear what dates the
Chinese will propose.
[I look forward to seeing you at Sunderland on 12 March.]
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