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CONFIDENTIAL
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TO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG
TELNO 1
OF 02093OZ JANUARY 92
CONFIDENTIAL
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YOUR TELNO 3946: YOUR MEETING WITH LU PING: 6 JANUARY
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1. WE TOO HAD BEEN WONDERING WHETHER THE TIME WAS RIGHT TO RAISE COCOM ISSUES WITH LU PING. AS YOU KNOW, WE ARE ABOUT TO EXCHANGE (CONFIDENTIAL) LETTERS WITH THE AMERICANS, UNDER WHICH THE US ADMINISTRATION WILL GRANT HONG KONG INTRA-COCOM TRADE BENEFITS FOR AN INDEFINITE PERIOD TO BE REVIEWED IN DUE COURSE. ANDREW BURNS HAS ALSO VERY RECENTLY SENT YOU A COPY OF A POLICY PAPER PRODUCED HERE, WITH FULL INPUT FROM YOUR TRADE AND INDUSTRY BRANCH, ON THE GENERAL QUESTION AND AN OUTLINE OF THE TIMING TO TAKE FORWARD QUESTIONS RELATING TO 1997.
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WE SHALL NEED TO DISCUSS POST 1997 COCOM ISSUES WITH THE CHINESE IN DUE COURSE, PROBABLY THROUGH THE JLG. IT IS PROBABLY TOO EARLY TO HAVE A MEANINGFUL DIALOGUE WITH THEM IN THE JLG CONTEXT SINCE SO MUCH OF THE ATTITUDE OF OUR COCOM PARTNERS WILL DEPEND ON THE CHINESE POLITICAL SITUATION IN THE MID AND LATE 1990S. BUT WE HAVE NO DIFFICULTY WITH YOUR PROBING LU PING'S VIEWS.
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