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Thank you.

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Dr Wilson

CALL ON MR RENTON BY SIR S Y CHUNG, 11AM, 11 JUNE 1986

1.

Mr Renton will see Sir S Y Chung at 11am on 11 June. The Secretary of State will first receive Sir S Y briefly at 10.45 am on the same day. I submit briefing for Sir S

Y'S call on Mr Renton, and a brief personality note on

Sir S Y.

I am copying this minute to the Private Secretary, together with a very short covering checklist of points that the Secretary of State may wish to make to

Sir S Y.

coincidence on

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2.

dinner for Hu

There is a potentially sensitive

11 June between the Chinese Ambassador's

Yaobang, which Mr Renton will attend, and the Hong Kong Association's Dragon Boat Dinner, which both the Secretary

of State and Sir S Y will address. We have therefore been

careful to see Sir S Y's speech in draft. In the light of

our comments, and those of the Governor and the Ambassador

in Peking, Sir S Y has agreed to amend very substantially certain passages referring to China which might have struck

an unfortunate note given the coincidence of the two

dinners. The final version of his speech, which I attach,

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