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HUNGARY: RELATIONS WITH CHINA, HONG KONG AND TAIWAN

1. On 30 March I was called in to see Zoltan Sudy (Head of Far East Department, MFA). Sudy's main purpose was to ask for assistance in organising his Foreign Minister's forthcoming visit to Hong Kong (en route to Peking) as reported in our telno 192. You might also be interested in a short note on the other topics which arose in discussion.

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2. Sudy said that it was important to maintain a dialogue with China and to keep up the pressure for human rights improvements, especially now that reform was again in the air in the run-up to the Party Congress. He did not wish to over-value the impact which Hungary could make, but Jeszenszky's agenda would cover these points. There was a certain regional scope to Chinese interest in Hungary. Chinese. trade centre would open in Budapest in May which would also cover some of the neighbouring countries: in practice it was functioning already. Chinese investors in Hungary, both official and private, were also still worth monitoring. As yet little progress had been made on the Chinese trade debt to Hungary, though there was a possibility that a Hungarian company, which wished to import Chinese goods, might buy the debt from the Government. In general, bilateral economic relations were on the increase. Minister for International Economic Relations (MIER) Kadar would visit China soon to attend a Mixed Commission on Trade.

3. However, Chinese "over-stayers" were proving a problem. A Hungarian delegation would visit China in early April to discuss this. The visa regime for China had been tightened recently: free visas were now only available for official and diplomatic visitors. The trick was to remain open to investors but discourage economic migrants. The Chinese had made no protest about this, merely announcing the suspension of their own visa free regime for Hungary in response.