22-NOV-1989 17:16
GENERAL DUTIES BRANCH HKG
852 5 840 1976
P.12
Extract from Oriental Daily News d.d. 21.11.89
SINO-BRITISH RELATION REALLY "IN TROUBLE"
ZHOU NAN PUTS THE BLAME ON THE COUNTERPART FOR "PLAYING CARDS"
EMPHASIZES :
"COOPERATION", NOT "CONFRONTATION"
(Our special correspondent NG Kit-man reporting from Guangzhou)
Foreign Minister of China ZHOU Nan said during an
The Vice
interview with our correspondent yesterday that the present Sino-British
However, the problem
relation really had some trouble and difficulties.
did not rest with the Chinese side. He wished his counterpart to show
sincerity, and hoped no cards would be played, as China's choice was
cooperation, not confrontation.
ZHOU Nan said, "we don't play cards. Does China play cards?
Playing cards won't lead us anywhere. There is no use playing cards.
Whatever card you call it, in the past they were called "confidence card"
and "internationalisation card", who knows what card there will be in
future. I hope that no cards will be played, at least we don't play
cards. Playing cards or not, showing sincerity or not is nothing "purely
imaginary. It's something that can be seen and felt."
During the interview,
ZHOU Nan reiterated that China was
looking forward to cooperation. There were times when China took the
initiative to damage cooperation. He hoped that the difficulties
regarding Sino-British relations could be resolved and the two countries
reverted to the good cooperative relation in the past five years in
implementing the Sino-British Joint Declaration together. ZHOU Nan said
whether the best period in the history of Sino-British relations in the
past five years would end or not did not rest with China. The one who
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