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Scow Wowmick

CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE PAPER ON HONG KONG

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I enclose three copies of a CRS paper about which we corresponded a few weeks ago (Dick Clift's letter to me of

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5 July). While concluding that the Chinese are likely to succeed in gaining de jure sovereignty, it argues that they will accept the basic conditions for the maintenance of Hong Kong as an independent economic centre. Insofar as this will be reassuring to the American commercial and financial readership, it is satisfactory from our point of view. The most interesting, I think, is the final section on US interests and options, which suggests that Sutter has been given some official guidance.

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