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1. I wrote to you and copy addressees (except Paul Thomas) on 3 February foreshadowing arrangements for the visit to Britain by General Secretary Hu Yaobang. We were grateful for your various suggestions. I now enclose a copy of the programme as it currently stands.

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We need to put in hand briefing for the British participants in the various governmental talks and meetings, specifically (so far) for:

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(talks and dinner on 9 June)

(meeting the party on 8 June; accompanying the river trip on 11 June)

(talks and lunch with Li Peng on 9 June)

(talks with Li Peng on 9 June)

(accompanying to Stratford and Oxford on 10 June)

(talks with Vice Foreign Minister Zhou Nan on 9 June)

3. This will be a complex exercise. I enclose a copy of Robert Culshaw's letter of 15 May to Charles Powell which indicates our general approach. It is important that Hu Yaobang and the senior members of his party (particularly Li Peng) should come away with informed, positive, coherent and mutually consistent images of modern Britain. It would help to achieve this if we approach the briefing exercise as a coordinated whole, rather than a series of separate meetings. Each British interlocutor could be encouraged to make some general bull points about British society (carefully tailored to Chinese ears) as well as pursuing the standard specific

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