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22 SEP 1936

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Conversation with Li Chuwen:

1 September

I sat next to Li Chuwen at Sir Y K Pao's Lunch:

icker.

Daya Bay

(a)

I thanked Li for his message about the invitation

to the fact finding groups to Peking. He said that

this was intended to be helpful. NCNA had worked

hard to impress upon their mainland colleagues the

need to handle this matter sensitively. Nuclear

technicians had a tendency to shoot their mouths

off however. The fact finding groups "observations"/

had struck Li as sensible.

(b)

Signature would follow immediately after the visit

to Peking (as we already know).

LegCo Debate

(c) Li asked whether this would happen. I said I did

not know at this stage. He quizzed me about Martin

Lee's objectives: he found him difficult to read these days. I said that Le clearly wanted to broaden

debate: he was driven by strong passions. There

was an important underlay of Hong Kong feeling on

Daya Bay; but considered Hong Kong opinion did not

always end up at the same point as Martin Lee.

Mainland/Hong Kong

(d) Li perceived deep continuing suspicion in Hong Kong

of the mainland. He made it his business to try

to deal with this. But we had a difficult row to

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