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FROM: C O HUM, HKD

DATE: 1 August 1986

cc: Dr Wilson

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Mr Hyam, Hid.

Mang thanks.

Inernenter

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The Hong Kong Government

sent us in facsimile

Emily Lau's article in this week's Far Eastern Economic

Review.

and

Renxon's

2.

on which I have sidelined the most

There is no

I attach a copy,

significant passages. It is not too bad.

reference to a "range of options" on the 1987 review being

put to the Chinese: instead the reference is to a "range of

issues" which the British are trying to make clear to Peking. There is no reference to the existence of papers.

Much of Dr Wilson' corrective language on the 1987 review has been accurately reflected.

There is however a

gratuitous dig in the final sentence which suggests that over constitutional change "there is every sign that the

British are prepared to allow the Chinese to have the final

say".

for just gratuitons

incorral.

р.

CO Hum

1 August 1986

Hong Kong Department

HKK Ou/i

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