TNAG-2702-FCO40-3908-Memoirs-of-Sir-Percy-Cradock--diplomat-and-sinologist-1993 — Page 140

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P12

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Last line, the use of "Hong Kong" here is factually incorrect.

He later correctly notes that it was the Legislative

Council and the Hong Kong Legal Profession which "decided to

assert itself by rejecting the agreement on the Court of Final

Appeal".

P15

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"We were also coming to the end of an era, which might be called that of Sino-British cooperation over Hong Kong"

Tendentious (and overstated

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hardly "the end of an era"; we are

engaged in talks with China now).

"a policy of effective, if not altogether intended

confrontation". Factually incorrect. At no time has HMG engaged in a policy of confrontation, intended or otherwise.

Chapter 24

P1

Paragraph 1 "and from Oct 1992 it was for a time abandoned"

Again the assertion that we abandoned a policy of negotiation and cooperation is factually incorrect.

P2

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Paragraph 2 "they were in a position to dictate. The arguments which Sir P Cradock deploys in this para suggest that

this phrase should be amended to read "they appeared to be (or

"were ostensibly") in a position to dictate".

P7

Paragraph 2 "and in Oct 1992, probably more by error than

intent, Britain and Hong Kong embarked on just such a course"

Not so. (See P1 above).

jm.lett.JM

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