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entirely private carrier,
concern for the Chinese.
remain in touch on this.
was very concerned about the recent Chinese retaliation
against Airbus sales, probably because of French arms
sales deals to Taiwan. Herr Gens cher had raised this
with Qian Qichen, pointing to the continuation of major
US arms sales to Taiwan. The Chinese response had been that the US was scaling down its programmes to Taiwan while the French were doing something new. The Chinese
had also said that the French had invited Qian Qichen to
visit Paris on his recent visit to Europe but that he had decided he should not go because of the French fighter
deal.
remained a particular point of
It was agreed that we should Herr Schlaginweit said Germany
Japan
15.
Herr Schlagintweit said that Genscher had not wished
to be seen to be demanding during his recent visit to
Japan. He had concentrated on matters such as the FSU, nuclear proliferation, the UN (carefully) and European
designs for containing the situation in Eastern Europe.
He had tried to get the Japanese interested in such
arrangements as NATO and CSC. The Germans believed it
desirable to lock the Japanese into the Western way. of thinking. It was not natural to keep them out of the
CSCE altogether, although it was not clear how a link
might be made in the absence of observer status for
non-Europeans and the North Americans. The Japanese did
not appear to want full membership, neither would the
Germans think that appropriate.
was
16. Genscher's approach to economic problems during the
visit had been mut ed. The Germans wished to avoid the
Japanese thinking there were big difficulties.
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