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9. IN ANSWER TO A QUESTION ABOUT POSSIBLE JAPANESE ECONOMIC DOMINANCE, QIAN SAID HE HAD HEARD OF IDEAS FOR A ''PAN-PACIFIC'' ECONOMIC AREA CENTRED ON JAPAN BUT COULD NOT BELIEVE THEY WERE

• PRACTICAL. ASIA DID NOT HAVE THE CONDITIONS FOR AN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY WHICH EXISTED IN EUROPE. ITS ECONOMIC STANDARDS VARIED TOO WIDELY FROM RICH COUNTRIES AND NICS TO SOME OF THE WORLD'S POOREST AND MOST BACKWARD, AND INSTEAD OF EUROPE'S CLEAR TWO-WAY DIVISION IT HAD THE MOST NUMEROUS AND VARIED REGIONAL CONFLICTS OF

ANY PART OF THE WORLD.

10. IN A CLOSING EXCHANGE, QIAN SAID SINO-BRITISH RELATIONS HAD REACHED A NEW HIGH AFTER THE JOINT DECLARATION BUT WENT WIDER THAN THE QUESTION OF HONG KONG. HE WAS SATISFIED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF

RELATIONS IN ALL FIELDS.

DONALD

YYYY

ΜΑΙΝ

LIMITED

FED

HKD

NAD

SOVIET

SEAD

NEWS

INFO

NNNN

75

;

DISTRIBUTION

75

PS

PS/MRS CHALKER

PS/LORD GLENARTHUR

- MR

GILLMORE

MR FRETWELL

MR MCLAREN

MR FEARN

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