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CONFIDENTIAL
FM HONG KONG
TO IMMEDIATE FCO
TELNO 2433
OF 01104OZ AUGUST 91.
INFO IMMEDIATE PEKING, WASHINGTON
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MDHIAN 7504
OUR TELNO 2296: CONFERENCE OF CHINESE STUDENT FEDERATIONS:
AMERICAN DEMARCHE
SUMMARY
1. STRONG AMERICAN DEMARCHE, WITH SPECIFIC QUESTIONING INCLUDING ON DECISION MAKING PROCESS AND CHINESE INVOLVEMENT. THREAT OF FURTHER REPRESENTATIONS.
DETAIL
2. DONOHUE, HEAD OF POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SECTION, US CONSULATE- GENERAL, CALLED ON THE ACTING POLITICAL ADVISER THIS MORNING TO DELIVER THE EXPECTED DEMARCHE ON THE STUDENT CONFERENCE. HE SAID PARALLEL DEMARCHES WERE TAKING PLACE IN WASHINGTON AND LONDON. HE STRESSED THAT HIS INSTRUCTIONS CAME FORM THE HIGHEST LEVEL IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT. CHE LATER SAID SPECIFICALLY THE SECRETARY OF STATE.) HE SAID THAT HE WAS CALLING IN HIS CAPACITY AS ACTING DEPUTY PRINCIPAL OFFICER, AND ADDED THAT THE CONSUL-GENERAL MIGHT WISH, DEPENDING UPON THE INITIAL REPLIES RECEIVED, TO RAISE THE MATTER HIMSELF AT A HIGHER LEVEL.
3. DONOHUE THEN READ OUT A SPEAKING NOTE AND HANDED OVER A COPY (TEXT IN MIFT). IN RESPONSE, BRADLEY NOTED THE POINTS IN THE DEMARCHE AND THE SERIOUSNESS WITH WHICH THEY WERE MADE. HE GAVE DONOHUE A COPY OF THE GOVERNOR'S REPLY TO CONGRESSWOMAN NANCY PELOSI (TEXT BY FAX TO HKD: ALREADY COPIED TO BE WASHINGTON). HE SAID THIS DESCRIBED OUR POSITION, WHICH WAS VERY CLEAR. OUR FIST CONCERN WAS THE PRESERVATION OF THE RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OF HONG KONG PEOPLE, IN PARTICULAR THE RIGHT OF FREE SPEECH, AND THERE WAS NO QUESTION OF SEEKING TO INFRINGE THIS. HOWEVER WE HAD STATED CLEARLY ON MANY OCCASIONS THAT WE WOULD NOT PERMIT HONG KONG TO BECOME A THEATRE FOR OTHER PEOPLE'S POLITICAL STRUGGLES. THIS WAS NOT A NEW POLICY, AND THIS ACTION DID NOT SET A 'PRECEDENT'. IN EARLIER TIMES THE POLICY HAD BEEN APPLIED PARTICULARLY WITH THE TAIWANESE KMT IN MIND. THE SITUATION WAS MORE COMPLEX NOW BUT THE BASIC PRINCIPLE REMAINED THE SAME. WE BELIEVED WE HAD DRAWN A LINE WHICH MADE VERY CLEAR WHAT WE WERE
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