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In the light of this, the Foreign Secretary believes
that it would be right to confine our action at this
stage to a working level of intervention with the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Peking about the general
implications for confidence in Hong Kong and China's
commercial interests of harrassment of this kind.
Instructions to this effect have been sent to Peking.
In Confidence
The Foreign Secretary agrees that should the
situation deteriorate, we may well need to upgrade our
efforts, in coordination with the Americans. In judging
what action would be most effective, we would need to
bear in mind that the Americans are currently in bad
odour in Peking, not least because they are providing
sanctuary in their Embassy to a prominent dissident,
Fang Lizhi, and his wife. He will in any case be keeping
closely in touch with developments over this case.
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