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FUTURE OF HONG KONG : EXCHANGES WITH THE JAPANESE

PROBLEM

1. Would there be advantage in taking the Japanese more fully into

our confidence over the future of Hong Kong?

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RECOMMENDATION

2. I recommend that the Private Secretary write to Number 10

Downing Street on the lines of the attached draft, seeking the Prime

Minister's agreement that the Japanese should be a little more fully

briefed. FED agree.

BACKGROUND

3.

At present we have taken only the Americans and the Old

Commonwealth countries into our confidence on this subject. On the

Prime Minister's instructions the Americans have been kept fully in

the picture, the Australians, Canadians and New Zealanders rather

less so.

4. For the reasons set out in the attached draft, there would be

advantage in adding the Japanese to the list. Japanese officials in Tokyo have already volunteered to our Embassy information on

exchanges with the Chinese which have cast an interesting light on

Chinese perceptions of the problem. Mr Elliott found on his tour of Far Eastern capitals that the Japanese were willing to talk about

China with specific reference to Hong Kong without asking any

embarrassing questions. He saw a clear case for continuing to tap

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