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We shall

reservations on specific aspects of the draft agreement. take these into account in our discussions with the Chinese Government, particularly in the Joint Liaison Group.

7.

Very interested in your remark at end of report that the widespread concern of the people of Hong Kong to be involved in drafting of the Basic Law. is an important token of their wish to stand increasingly on their own political feet. Do you have views × on the way in which this new political self-assertiveness might

develop?

Hong Kong Department

28 November 1984

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