TNAG-2761-FCO40-3978-Hong-Kong-Chinese-discrimination-against-UK-companies-Swire-1993 — Page 14

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CONFIDENTIAL

FROM:

PF Ricketts

нив 180/1

. 8 OCT 1993

DATE:

Hong Kong Department 5 November 1993

CC:

Mr Hum

Miss Booker, APS/PUS

PUS's LUNCH WITH SIR ADRIAN SWIRE

1. As requested in your minute of 20 October, I enclose a

short note on China/Hong Kong updating the PUS on the negotiations and covering other issues likely to be of

interest to Sir Adrian Swire.

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2. The PUS will find Sir A Swire worried about the

implications for Swires and Cathay Pacific if we fail to reach agreement in the talks. Swires have been characteristically careful not to betray this in public, but Sir A Swire will

probably bend the PUS's ear in private. We have deliberately avoided radiating any optimism about prospects for the talks

despite the encouraging signs of movement from the Chinese

side during the last Round. But the PUS might say privately

to Sir A Swire that there have been one or two chinks of light

recently, and that although we are not counting any chickens,

we are working hard for agreement and are not expecting any

dramatic decisions from OPD (K).

PF Ricketts

CONFIDENTIAL