TNAG-2795-FCO40-4035-Relations-between-Hong-Kong-and-Taiwan-1993 — Page 45

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Director of the Chung Hwa Travel Agency (run by the MFA) and the most senior Taiwanese official in Hong Kong wanted all Taiwan organisations to be brought together under one roof. But this would be ill-advised. It would draw too much attention to the Taiwan presence, and attract Chinese fire. If after 1007 the Chinese cook issue with one of the crganis sions, the others might well suffer under such an arrangement. Far better to maintain the current, physically dispersed and locselv coordinated structure of separate offices. Mr Ni was putting his own empire-building interests before those

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