TNAG-1252-FCO40-1585-Third-countries-and-the-future-of-Hong-Kong-1983 — Page 53

CONFIDENTIAL

R JT McLaren Esq CMG Politie 1 Adviser HONG KO G

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• HKK090/5 KOND I SUSARY NO. 51

- 8 APR 1983

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PEGISTRY Action Taken

British Embassy PEKING

24 March 1983

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Thank you for copying to us your letter of 11 March to Dick Clift. I have poken to the Counsellor at the New Zealand Embassy about

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Mr Cooper's visit. Larkindale told me that there was only one brief reference to long Kong, in the minister's talks with Wu Xueqian. In the context of a monologue on China's domestic affairs, Wu described the creation of the Special Economic Zones as a step relevan to the reunification of Taiwan with the motherland, and Said China hoped that similar arrangements might apply to Hong Kong when China recovered sovereignty; China intended to maintain the stabilly and pros] arity of Hong Kong by this system.

Not a new

or remarkable statement, but worth noting that Wu mentioned Hong Kong without being asked about it.

Yours.ever

Bob

Cc:

R Clift Esq. HKGD, FCO Chancery, Wellington

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