TNAG-1237-FCO40-1550-Future-of-Hong-Kong-1983 — Page 198

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Australia and many different Australian enterprises are putting a special effort and money into the development of relations with China. In addition to regular governmental exchanges, and the cultural, scientific, technological and educational programmes administered by

our Departments of Foreign Affairs, Science, and Education, the Australian Government has set aside additional money

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for China. It has a no-strings aid commitment of 100 million Renminbi. It has a line of credit at attractive interest rates. It supports financially special exchange programmes run by our Academy of Science, Academy of Technological Sciences, Academy of Humanities and Academy of Social Sciences. It has set up a special Australia-China Council, which has an annual budget of about one million Renminbi, to develop teaching Chinese language and Chinese studies and to raise public knowledge and awareness of China in Australia, and to act as a seeding machine to support exchanges with China. In addition there are numbers of commercial organisations and individuals who are working to cement our ties.

and equally hostilia China can gain a great deal from Australia, Already you import significant quantities of our raw materials. You have as much to gain from our technology which is adapted to our own needs but equal to the World's most advanced.

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This applies to our agriculture and animal husbandry as well as to our industry. You could have the benefit of Australian

investment.

Australia and China both have an interest in a stable region and we share common goals in foreign policy.

I think it may well be the case that there is no other country in the Asia-Pacific region in which there is such a strong combination of factors conducive to a special relationship

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a solid consensus favouring good relations

with China, the absence of any mutual threat, a shared view on most major International questions and a harmonious bilateral relationship.

has mutual benefit to gam

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From the P.R.C.

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