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made in the form of practical cooperation.

Obstacles to

this practical cooperation are substantial ...".

2.

This may seem a small change but I think that it is suspicion of Sir P Cradock's line that underlies much of the more intelligent press criticism of Government policy on Hong Kong. It implies systematic appeasement: that we should give the Chinese everything they demand, so long as we can get away with it politically in Hong Kong and London; we shall pay any price, bear any burden to win a smiling face and friendly noises in Peking. Sir P Cradock's line also impairs the credibility of the claim that we had a real "bottom line" on the airport.

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