TNAG-1657-FCO40-2305-Daya-Bay-nuclear-power-station-project-safety-concerns-in-Ho-1987 — Page 26

FCO40 Hong Kong Department Records 聯邦事務部香港部檔案 All

to transport its own computer to-and-fro

to China getting it through Shenzhen

Station with several thousand Chinese

converging on four entry gates was one of

the epics of the negotiations.

ANGLO/FRENCH LIAISON

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Having two parties negotiating with one

client, we had immediately put ourselves

at a tactical disadvantage Sun Tsu's maxims state "Where your enemy is united,

divide him" and we had achieved this

for the Chinese without them doing any-

thing.

Hence we and the French realised that we

needed the closest co-ordination, since

anything that one side conceded would

automatically have to be matched by the

other.

The structure of finance negotiations

reflected the commercial structure -

separate commercial negotiations, with related Government financing. There was

an array of technical discrepancies in

the methodology of credit support eg

guarantee requirements; premium systems

and forms of cover. And these were

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