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FORRIGE SECRETARY (COFT):
They are, as a result, more suspicious than they were
before. But equally I believe that there is a powerful Chinese
incentive to continue to make sense of the philosphy, which after
all they invented and which the Chinese Prime Minister reaffirmed
only yesterday, of two systems in one country,
Because it is only under that philosophy, with Hong Kong as
a free and vigorous SAR within the People's Republic, it is only
under that philosophy that they have a chance of realising for
China the kind of benefits which I was skatching earlier.
QUESTION:
Anauntry closest to Home Rome from the Ruropean
Ind
countries, what would you advise the Americans and the Europeans to
do now in dealings with China
norml?
business as normal, credit as
FOREIGN SECRETARY:
So, we are bound by the agreements reached in Burope among
the Twelve ahut high-level contacts with China and we are bound by
the different arrangements which were agreed then and those remain.
QUESTION:
Are you critical of the visit of Ir Scowcroft to China,
obviously this broke the agreement?
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