HKDAFZ
SECRETARY OF STATE'S MEETING WITH US SECRETARY BAKER
China
We are at one with the US administration in our reaction to recent
events in China. The package of measures announced at the Paris Economic Summit reflected measures already adopted by us, the US and
a number of other partners. The US administration is however under
congressional pressure for further sanctions, particularly in trade relations. This pressure may grow if tension with China over the
refuge being given by the US Embassy in Peking to the leading
dissident Fang Lizhi incrases. It would be useful to underline to
the US our continued opposition to general trade/economic sanctions:
we do not wish to isolate China; trade sanctions would be harmful to
the Chinese people, and to Hong Kong.
Far Eastern Department
27 July 1989
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