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make it appear that we had radically altered our policy.
We
shall also need to consider the state of relations over Hong Kong
(e.g. the progress of the talks currently under way) in
considering the timing of any significant new move. On issues
such as the frequency of other Ministerial visits and the timing
of the first Cabinet rank visit for example, we should still
examine requests on a case by case basis, bearing in mind the
state of the UK/PRC relationship at the time and the rough
balance in the number of visitors to Taiwan and to the PRC.
have got away with it so far by being gradual.
We
13. The next lunch between Mr Hum, myself and the Taiwan
Representative (under the usual cover) will take place on Monday
24 May.
It will be the first with Mr Chien, who has only
recently arrived. We propose to take him through the recent
history of UK-Taiwan relations including some of the points in
para 3 above. I hope that we shall be able to give him good news about visa/passports. We propose to tell him of our reservations
about defence contacts, thus giving him the answer to the approach in Taipei to Mr Morrice (ATTC). One advantage of this
would be to place the discussion of the defence issue in a
different channel from the BAe project, with which there should
be no connection.
Grabzani Fry
Graham Fry
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