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My Visit to Peking: 3-6 June

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I paid a short familiarisation visit to Peking earlier

this month before continuing on to Weifang for the Eric Liddell

Foundation Dedication Ceremony. The Embassy organised for me a

varied and interesting programme, a copy of which I attach. In addition to the calls in the programme, I also asked for one on

the Guangdong Provincial Office in Peking. This was turned

down.

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2.

The "free" evening of June 4 was spent with Mr. Doyle,

Assistant Defence Attache and Mr. Brooking, cruising the

university areas in the Embassy Land Rover. There was a

considerable (if not always overt) security presence, but no signs of any incidents.

3.

With Visa Section I discussed ways of flagging up in

advance potentially interesting visits to HK, particularly Provincial leaders. They already run such a system for visits

to the UK, and in future will mark on the visa telegrams any

officials that they consider may be of interest (e.g.

Governors, Mayors, Ministers or their deputies). This will not be foolproof and we will continue to scan visa applications,

but it should give us more notice of such visits. The section

raised with me one or two points which I will pass to D of Imm.

4.

I accompanied Ms. MŌrilla Logan from FED on a call on Mr. Zhao Kuangwei, Deputy Director of the State Council Bureau of Religious Affairs. This was by way of general

familiarisation, but in view of the Eric Liddell Foundation and

possible sensitivities attached to Liddell's role as a

missionary it was of personal interest. We were fed the standard "freedom of religion" line, but took the opportunity

to ask some awkward questions.

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