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Hong Kong Police. [Our CP Ray Anning and their Chief Liu Wen,
Director of CID and Head of Interpol Narcotics Control Board
meet regularly : normally twice a year] He spoke warmly of
Anning's recent visit and hoped for continued co-operation in
the future. I told Zhou that when Mr. Liu Wen next visited
Hong Kong, he would be most welcome to call on us.
15.
Liu Zhi-min (Deputy Chief of CID and Interpol NCB
China) then took over and referred to China's recognition of
the dangers of drugs entering Hong Kong via China and again
made reference to China's sufferings from this problem in the
past. (All the Chinese officials we spoke to constantly
alluded to or spoke directly of the Opium War although care
was taken not to cause offence and at no time was Britain
specifically mentioned.) Liu described how traffickers were
taking advantage of the Open Door Policy by exploiting access
through the western borders of China. On the other hand there
was little or no evidence, said Liu, of the illicit growing of
poppies or manufacture of opium in China itself.
16.
He then spoke of the production figures for 1987
in the Golden Triangle and gave an estimate of 1,000 tonnes of
opium. He went so far as to say that smuggling by sea had
reduced considerably in favour of smuggling over land and also
conceded that heroin
was
being
smuggled in
increasing
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