3. BASTOUIL SAID THAT HU'S MAIN MESSAGE WAS CHINA'S INTEREST IN
EUROPE. HE SPOKE STRONGLY AGAINST EURO-PESSIMISM.
4. ON OTHER INTERNATIONAL SUBJECTS, HU SEEMS TO HAVE SAID NOTHING
MUCH NEW. CHINA, LIKE FRANCE, SOUGHT A THIRD WAY BETWEEN THE SUPER-POWERS, WOULD BE READY TO CONSIDER NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT IF THE SUPER-POWERS HAD MADE DEEP CUTS FIRST AND SOUGHT THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE THIRD WORLD. WITH THE USSR, ECONOMIC RELATIONS WERE DEVELOPING WELL (CF THE FIGURE QUOTED ABOVE) BUT ON THE POLITICAL SIDE THE THREE OBSTACLES REMAINED, AND ALTHOUGH IN PUBLIC HU SAID THAT HE HOPED FOR AN IMPROVEMENT, HE SEEMED MUCH MORE PESSIMISTIC IN PRIVATE. ON CAMBODIA, HE SUPPORTED THE COALITION'S 8-POINT PROGRAMME. AFTER VIETNAMESE TROOP WITHDRAWAL, THERE SHOULD BE A QUADRIPARTITE, NEUTRAL, NON-SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT. THE KHMERS ROUGES HAD BEEN MUCH MALIGNED, AND ANYWAY PEOPLE LIKE POL POT WERE NOW OUT OF THINGS. HU SAID THAT HE PERSONALLY WAS IN CHARGE OF CAMBODIA POLICY IN PEKING. AT HIS PRESS CONFERENCE, HU VIGOROUSLY ATTACKED VIETNAM.
5. BILATERAL RELATIONS WITH FRANCE WERE GOOD. CHINA'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WAS GOING AHEAD ON A SOUND BASIS WITH 8 PERCENT GROWTH. THERE WAS DOLLARS 20 BILLION TO BE DEVOTED TO ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY EITHER IN JVS OR WHOLLY FOREIGN INVESTMENTS. OF THE MONEY SPENT SO FAR, NEARLY HALF (DOLLARS 2.1 BILLION) HAD GONE TO AMERICAN FIRMS. ASKED ABOUT THE DIFFICULTIES SOME FOREIGN BUSINESSMEN HAD EXPERIENCED, HE SAID WE ALL HAVE FLEAS, SOME OF US MORE THAN OTHERS'' (APPARENTLY A REFERENCE TO BUREAUCRATS). ON DAYA BAY, HE SAID THAT PUBLIC CONCERN IN HONG KONG OVER CHERNOBYL WAS NATURAL BUT CHINA WOULD TAKE ALL THE NECESSARY SECURITY PRECAUTIONS AND IT WOULD BE WRONG TO CONDEMN NUCLEAR POWER AS SUCH.
Page 105Page 106
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.