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HK1APG

CONFIDENTIAL

FROM: C O HUM, HKD

DATE: 1 August 1986

PS/Mr Renton

cc: Dr Wilson

EMILY LAU

1.

The Hong Kong Government have sent us in facsimile

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

Review.

2.

I attach a copy, on which I have sidelined the most

significant passages. It is not too bad. There is no 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's corrective language on the 1987 review

has been accurately reflected.

There is however a

gratuitous dig in the final

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".

HKK O!!!!...

KALORIK ·

19 AUG 1986

PA

AB 19/8.

Stum

CO Hum

Hong Kong Department

1 August 1986

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