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PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA POLICE COOPERATION

Thank you for your letter of 13 July asking for the FCO's. views on the Chinese Military Attache's invitation for

send two senior police delegations to the PRC in the latter

half of 1987..

visit

Taking the three main points that you raised and starting

with the political aspects, I can confirm that we would

indeed be happy to see these invitations taken up. Such

visits are a useful way of consolidating our bilateral

relationships and building on the excellent foundations

created by the 1984 Declaration on Hong Kong and the

State Visit to China last year. There are no particular

Hong Kong implications arising from these invitations, but

were the Chinese to show any interest in including

internal security matters in the visit programme it

might be as well for our people to have a further word

with your experts.

Turning to the commercial aspects, I am afraid that

we can only agree that there is unlikely to be commercial

benefit to the UK either directly or indirectly from these

that

visits and any training or advisory work subsequent to

these visits would probably have to be within the framewor

of/...