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MIPT: VISIT BY HU YAOBANG: OBJECTIVES

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HU'S VISIT WILL BE THE FIRST EVER BY A PURELY PARTY LEADER.

WE HAVE BEEN CONSIDERING HOW THIS SHOULD AFFECT OUR OBJECTIVES.

2. OUR PRELIMINARY INCLINATION AT DEPARTMENTAL LEVEL IS TO AIM

FOR A MORE PHILOSOPHICAL "EMPHASIS THAN FOR PREMIER ZHAO'S VISIT.

THE`FOCUS THEN RIGHTLY WAS ON FRACTICAL ASPECTS AND OPPORT-

UNITIES OF OUR RELATIONSHIP, PARTICULARLY IN TRADE AND TECH-

NOLOGY. TAKEN TOGETHER, HU'S POSITION, HIS PERSONALITY, LI'S EDUCATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND THE CHINESE REQUEST FOR A STRONG

CULTURAL ELEMENT OPEN THE WAY FOR A DIFFERENT APPROACH.

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ONE SPECIFIC POSSIBILITY IN WHICH WE SEE MERIT WOULD BE FOR

DISCUSSIONS WITH THE PRIME MINISTER TO INCLUDE THEORETICAL/IDEO- LOGICAL ASPECTS OF BRITISH AND CHINESE POLITICS AND CULTURAL

OUTLOOKS. THIS WOULD NOT BE WITHOUT RISK IF HANDLED UNSYMPATH-

ETICALLY. BUT A CAREFUL EXPOSITION OF ENTERPRISE CULTURE, HIGHLIGHTING PARALLELS AS WELL AS DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BRITAIN AND

ཝཱ སོ ཝུཏྟཏྟཾ ཏི ', རཱ ཙ ཝཾ བྷ, པ མཱམཱུ བྷཱ CHINA MIGHT BE STIMULATING FOR HU, DRAW HIM OUT MORE THAN LESS OPEN-ENDED EXCHANGE AND LEAVE A DEEPER, MORE POSITIVE

IMPRESSION OF BRITAIN.

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4. EDUCATION WILL FIGURE PROMINENTLY IF THE SINO-BRITISH

SCHOLARSHIP FUND CAN BE FORMALLY LAUNCHED DURING THE VISIT. WE

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