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The Secretary of State had breakfast today with Y K Pao and spoke to your comprehensive brief. The following points made by Y K Pao deserve recording :
Y K Pao said that he attended all five sub-committees of the Basic Law Drafting Committee. The proceedings were now fully publicised. There was a considerable Hong Kong input.
There was an emerging concept of a group in Hong Kong which might function as a kind of electoral college to identify the future Chief Executive.
The Chinese seemed more reconciled than before to the 1987 Review (ie Y K Pao was moderating his line on this).
The Chinese thought that a Chinese "deputy governor" ought to be appointed in Hong Kong before long. He made it clear that he was thinking of the Chief Secretary's position. He suggested that this would provide a basis on which the British could seek a British deputy governor after 1997, though he would have to be called an adviser
- Y K Pao asked whether he should give any thought to the possibility of joining EXCO: the Secretary of State was non-committal.
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Y K Pao said that he had been astonished at the difficulty we had raised over administrative charges for the Scholarship Scheme. The Secretary of State pointed out that this was now resolved.
As expected, Y K Pao pressed for the Ningbo Steel Project to feature in The Queen's State Visit to China, and said that he had been talking to Lord Jellicoe about this (the secretary of State is not clear exactly what role Lord Jellicoe has).
- Y K Pao pressed to be included in Royal Visit functions in
Hong Kong and China, but the Secretary of State took a very cautious line, and encouraged him to approach the Chinese about the Visit to China.
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