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Mr S Bradley

Deputy Political Adviser

Hong Kong

Telephone 01-

Your reference

Our reference

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Date

16 August 1990

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RECEIVES

28 AUG 1990

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PRO-DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS IN HONG KONG

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2.

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Mr Pattison's letter to Rosalin Marsden of 7 August refers.

I have sent the enclosed reply to the Alliance of Hong Kong Chinese in the United States. This is the line we have taken on the issuedis.

the reply given by the Prime Minister to Mr Paddy Ashdown's letter of 29 June on the same subject.

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Ma Cola a ge ON reflection, I

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Hong Kong Department

I think it

would be better to let

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Sleeping dogs lie. Our reply would

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excite their move

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