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achieve success in lobbying and also how to achieve the opposite. To be seen to attempt to intervene would have the reverse of the desired effect. Senator McConnell was generally well-disposed to China (and had voted for MFN renewal); he was not trying to be difficult. This Bill was an inevitable reflection of US interests in Hong Kong. He hoped that it would be possible to discuss all such issues openly and without suspicion on any side.

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