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25 November 1992
P Ricketts Esq. Hong Kong Department FCO
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CHINA/HONG KONG: MFN STATUS
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We spoke about your letter
24 November to the Ambassador.
The Ambassador has asked me to say that he wholly agrees with the thrust of your draft. If there is still time, he would prefer to see your first tiret re-worded to read: "Our aim is to avoid, or minimise conditions being attached to the renewal of MFN for China so as at the least to ensure that conditions are ones that China has some chance of meeting".
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You might also be interested to see the attached article from the 25 November Journal of Commerce on Clinton's plans for handling MFN by issuing a statement threatening to revoke it in 1994 if certain conditions are not met (cf our telno 2568).
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