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FM HONG KONG
TO ROUTINE FCO
TELNO 2101
OF 031035Z JULY 86
INFO ROUTINE PEKING
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PERSONAL FOR HUM, HONG KONG DEPARTMENT FROM GOVERNOR.
PEKING PERSONAL FOR AMBASSADOR.
MY TELNO 1911 SR Y K PAO.
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1. WHEN SWR Y K PAO CAME TO SEE ME HE DID RAISE THE QUESTION OF ''DEPUTY GOVERNORS' AND HE ALSO SPOKE SIMILARLY TO THE CHIEF SECRETAR AT A LUNCH A FEW DAYS LATER.
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2. HIS MAIN THEME TO BOTH OF US WAS THAT ALTHOUGH THERE WAS A JLG WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UK AND CHINA ON IT NEITHER HAD ANY DIRECT KNOWLEDGE OF HONG KONG AND THERE WAS NO BODY OF PERSONS IN HONG KONG CHARGED WITH THE TRANSITION (HE SEEMED TO IGNORE THE ROLE OF EXCO) AND SPECIFICALLY WITH CHOOSING A FUTURE CHIEF EXECUTIVE ACCEPTABLE TO THE UK, CHINA AND HONG KONG. HIS DEA OF APPOINTING ONE OF TWO DEPUTY GOVERNORS HS APPARENTLY INTENDED TO ENSURE THAT THERE SHOULD BE A HONG KONG CHINESE IN POSITION BY ABOUT 1995 WHO,
IF HE WAS GOOD'', COULD BE APPOINTED GOVERNOR BY THE BRITISH AND THEN CARRY ON AS CHIEF EXECUTIVE AFTER 1997.
3. HE IS, OF COURSE UNAWARE OF THE WORK BENNG DONE IN THE
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL ON THE TRANS HTPON. BUT DOUBT IF HE WOULD ATTACH MUCH IMPORTANCE TO INT UNLESS HE WERE HIMSELF APPOINTED TO EXCO.
4. AS REGARDS HIS OWN ROLE HE CONTINUES TO MAINTAIN THAT HE DOES NOT HAVE HIMSELF HN MIND AS A FUTURE CHIEF EXECUTIVE. BUT it SUSPECT THAT EVEN IF HE DOES NOT WISH TO BE THE KING, HE WOULD LIKE TO BE ONE OF THE KING MAKERS' AND THUS DEEPLY INVOLVED IN CHOOSING THE HONG KONG CHINESE WHOM HE THINKS SHOULD BE IN POSITION IN THE MED 1990'S TO CARRY HONG KONG SMOOTHLY THROUGH THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD.
5. HAVE LITTLE DOUBT THAT HE WILL BE CARRYING THE SAME MESSAGE TO PEKHING.
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HD/FED
MR FIFOOT, LEGAL ADVISERS
RESEARCH DEPT (FE)
DEP/HD/PUSD
PS/MR RENTON SIR W HARDING MR WILSON
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