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I think the most realistic of Mr Bucknall's ideas are to be found under (b) but it does not seem to me that he has really thought any of them through in detail, given the scant distinction he seems to make between rule from London and rule from Peking, his lack of regard for the views and future wellbeing of the people of Hong Kong and his vagueness over the timing and effects of such drastic changes as

'putting in a Chinese Communist governor' (page 127).

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Nonetheless it is not a bad paper at all, particularly on the present relationship between Hong Kong and China.

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9 February 1983

W Morris

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