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State Department Views on China
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When Mr Szymanski of the China Desk was here recently the following emerged over lunch on 12 June.
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(a)
Mr Szymanski is clearly less bullish about Hong Kong than e.g. Burt Levin. But he said he was
less cynical than when he was in China a few
years ago (and he had been very cynical). He now
thought the solution had a reasonable chance.
(b)
He thought that there was a reasonable prospect of stability in China during the transition.
guarantee of course.
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(c)
(d)
The Chinese were no longer pressuring the Americans to push Taiwan into the arms of the motherland. They understood the limits. There seemed to have been a high level Chinese decision round about last summer to lay off. In Taiwan itself there were definite pressures for change. Mr Szymanski thought the Chinese had played the aircraft hijack very sensibly.
The Americans had had a recent row with the
Chinese Embassy over Tibet nomenclature in
Congressional legislation. This had been solved
eventually by a planted restatement of the US
position but it had all been something of a bore.
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