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25 OCT 1986
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At dinner last night, Sir Roger Lobo made the following
(a) He despaired of Portuguese arrangements for handling
the negotiations. The Portuguese Foreign Ministry were not involving their colleagues, even in the Prime Minister's office. They had had no thought of keeping the opposition posted.
(b)
that they could
They had a hopeless fantasy/"play the cultural card" - i.e. that statements or demonstrations of what Portuguese culture had in the past brought to the South China coast would impress the Chinese.
If
they persisted in this line they would get two fingers from Peking.
(c) Equally, they had a fantasy that they could suddenly
maximise the value of Macau to China by installing such infrastructural items as an airport. There was no money for such schemes; and no requirement, given that the Chinese could do their own thing across the border at much lower cost.
(d)
He did not exclude absolutely that the Portuguese
would lose patience and leave before the end of the trans- itional period, when agreed.
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