TNAG-1623-FCO40-2237-Relations-between-Hong-Kong-and-China-1987 — Page 80

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Date:

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Far Eastern Dept

28 July 1987

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Research Department

Sir P Cradock, No 10

Assessment Staff

POLITICAL SCENE IN CHINA:

JULY 1987

1. I submit Sir R Evans' despatch "The Political Scene

in China: July 1987", which is being distributed to those with a particular interest in the subject. Because of the uncertainty of the political situation in

China until after the 13th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, there is no call to print this despatch with a general distribution. The Department will be sending a substantive reply incorporating any comments addressees might have on the despatch of this submission.

Ideology in Chinese politics

2. Sir Richard suggests that, this time last year, it almost seemed as if ideological dispute had gone out of Chinese political life, but that recent events, including the fall of Hu Yaobang, have shown up a clear spectrum in Chinese politics. He identifies three particular schools

of thought the utopians (the Maoists, also known as the

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