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(e)
(f)
On a possible visit by S of S to Peking, Mr.
Ricketts said that S of S must have something
new to say to produce the impetus. The Governor
said that if the Chinese had shown their ideas
at that time, S of S could put forward our response to those ideas. Clearly, S of S would
want to wait until after the sixth round before
making a decision. Mr. Ricketts said that Sir
Robin could probably mention the possibility of
such a visit to the Chinese informally.
that the course
On the draft OPD (K) paper, the Governor said
of action proposed therein was
precisely what we had tried to avoid during this
time. As our current tactics seemed to be
edging the Chinese to put forward their specific
ideas, any move on one part would likely to be
pocketed by the Chinese.
The draft had
under-estimated the strength of our own position
and the resilience of public support for our
October package. There should also be an
assessment of the consequences of a breakdown of
talks,
and
also
time-constraints were.
paper should recommend
present strategy.
Mr.
move
of
a
on
what
the
real
He would think that the
that we maintained our
Ricketts said that the draft attempted to
into unchartered waters and the formulation
"conditional offer" was rather meant to be
approach to indicate our initial willingness to look at specific ideas, bearing in mind that we might now be near the end-game.
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