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Para 9 last tiret: I am not sure that this is an exhaustive account OL the appalling things the Chinese might do. I would expect them as 1997 approached, to step up their efforts to marginalise the Hong Kong Government and to use the inevitability of the transfer of sovereignty to build the widest possible basis or support from business and other circles, including the civil service, while isolating and destroying their political opponents, which would at this stage include the Hong Kong
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L am not sure that I share the judgement that it would be better to hold talks in order to gain time. We may not have much alternative. But in my view the more time we succeed in gaining, the harder the eventual decision will be for us.
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A C Galsworthy
M Dinham Esq, Government House Sir R McLaren KCMG, PEKING
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