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Andrew Gowers Esq

Foreign Editor

Financial Times

Number One Southwark Bridge

LONDON SEI 9HL

Дела Dan Dr Gowers,

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

London SW1A 2AH

22 February 1993

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Miss Saig

Thank you for your letter of 19 February about your expanded coverage of China. I am drawing it to the attention of Sir Robin McLaren in Peking and other colleagues with an interest in China.

I read with interest your reporting on Far Eastern affairs in the Financial Times, and have long admired its breadth and insight. I am naturally pleased to know that you now plan to step up your coverage of developments in China. As it happens I know Tony Walker personally, since we served in Peking together in the early 1980s. I know what a good correspondent he is, and I look forward to reading his reporting.

We value our contacts with the Financial Times, and I am always happy to talk to your Asia Editor if I can be of help.

To sucends

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bcc: Sir R McLaren KCMG

PEKING

Mr William Ehrman

Political Adviser

HONG KONG

Mr Davies, FED

Mr Cornish, News Dept

Mr Ricketts, HKD

Sir J Coles

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