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15.
Hong Kong have as a
E
trustworthy
Basic
Drafting Committee.
separate separate exercise also produced
to use as the Basic Law, which they propose a paper on
basis for briefing
Hong Kong members
to Law
shall need
a
of the
We
consider
certainty that the Chinese
any
to
further how this could best be done in practice, given the
the would
in react adversely
face of
that evidence
we were directly seeking
influence the drafting of the Basic Law. The Secretary of State may wish to glance at this paper too for information
at the present stage.
16.
was
even
A
to
I do not think it would be wise
it would be wise to give papers a)
to c) above to the Chinese in advance of a meeting between the Secretary of State and Wu. This would enable the rats
to
at the exercise
it be fore get
Launched.
preferable approach might be for the Secretary of State give the papers to Wu at the end of the meeting, or for the papers to be passed to his
to his retinue immediately afterwards. This should ensure that Wu was the first senior Chinese to go through the papers, and that he could pass them to Zhou
with Nan
his first
from his return
European tour.
reactions
on
his
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