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Date:

22 May 1990

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Mr Way Lunch on

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Private Secretary

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SIR Y K PAO: INVITATION TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR LUNCHEON

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1.

Please refer to Mr Hall's minute of 21 May. You have asked

whether the Secretary of State should accept an invitation from

Sir Y K Pao for lunch. I recommend that he should do so.

2.

He

Sir Y K Pao who is Chairman of the Worldwide Shipping Group, is an important figure in Hong Kong. His wealth and extensive business interests give him considerable influence, both in the territory

and in China (where he has made a number of large donations).

is supposed to be on good terms with Deng Xiaoping. He was also a vice chairman of the Basic Law Drafting Committee, though not a very

active one.

Sir Y K Pao is well known to the Prime Minister. She agreed to contribute a foreward to a biography about him (attached).

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