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CONFIDENTIAL

Reference..........

Mr Gowan (EESD, W103)

ANGLO-SOVIET PLANNING TALKS

Mr Manning's (Planning Staff) circular minute of 11 January.

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2. You may have general views on the line Mr Walden should take on China but in preparing the attached draft briefs 6, 7 and 8 I have assumed that we should be optimistic about China's political and economic prospects and about UK/China relations and that we should be relaxed about Sino-Soviet relations.

I should be grateful for comments on these drafts by 3 pm on Friday 14 January.

3.

مملكه

13 January 1983

N J Cox

Far Eastern Department W82

233 5539

cc Mr Morris, HKGD, K221 (with draft brief 7)

Mr Segar, SEAD, W86A

(with draft brief 8)

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