TNAG-2291-FCO40-3300-Relations-between-Hong-Kong-and-Taiwan-1991 — Page 81

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1 We recently arranged for Lord Fanshawe to call on Lee

Kuan Yew in Singapore on 8 April. Our High Commissioner has reported the call in some detail.

2 It was a conversation of unusual interest. The following points are amongst those worth noting:

a) LKY's views on Brunei are perceptive.

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on Hong Kong LKY thinks that we are unwise to quarrel with Peking over PADS. He also re-writes history by criticising our decision to embark on the negotiations which led to the Joint Declaration, having at the time and subsequently supported this approach;

c) Lord Fanshawe is convinced that LKY intends to become the elected President of Singapore;

d) he was also struck at how pro-American LKY remains, and how wary of the Japanese.

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