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NOTABLE ABSENCE OF FOREIGN MINISTRY INFLUENCE OVER OTHERS (CIVIL
AVIATION AND FLA BEING EXAMPLES). FORMER AMB DRAKE INDICATED TO
CHIEF SECTY THAT HE SHARED HIS ASSESSMENT AND THAT THIS SITUATION
WAS EVIDENT GENERALLY -- NOT/NOT SIMPLY WITH RESPECT TO HKONG
ISSUES.
5.IN RESPONSE TO POINTS RAISED BY PROF GRAHAM JOHNSON UBC, THERE
WAS CONSENSUS ON IMPORTANCE OF THE STRONG ECONOMIC LINKS BETWEEN
SOUTH CHINA AND HKONG AND ON THE COMFORT TO BE TAKEN FROM EXAMPLE
OF SOUTH CHINAS ABILITY TO INSULATE ITSELF SOMEWHAT FROM JUN89
EVENTS.
6.AS TO HKONG POST 1997, SIR DAVID SAID HE PERSONALLY FELT MOST
HEAL THREAT RELATED NOT/NOT TO POSSIBLE IMPACTS FROM PRC
POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS, BUT TO RISK THAT PRC
AUTHORITIES (OUT OF LACK OF FULL APPRECIATION FOR WHAT MAKES
HKONG FUNCTION) WOULD MEDDLE WITH MATTERS IN HKONG THAT THEY
WOULD BE BEST ADVISED TO LEAVE ALONE.
7.IN HIS ANALYSIS OF CURRENT SITUATION IN PRC, SIR DAVID PLACED
EMPHASIS ON STRUGGLE UNDERWAY BY IMPORTANT REGIONAL FIGURES TO
REST MORE POWER FROM CENTRE.
8.SIR DAVID INDICATED AT BREAKFAST SESSION, IN RESPONSE TO
URGINGS THAT HONG GOV SHOULD VISIT BRITISH COLUMBIA, THAT SUCH A
VISIT WAS PENCILED IN ON GOVS SCHEDULE FOR OCT.91.
9.SIR DAVID ALSO TOUCHED LIGHTLY BUT FIRMLY (WHEN PRESENTED
WITH THE OPPORTUNITY AS A RESULT OF INTERVENTION AT BREAKFAST)ON
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