CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL
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25 OCT 1993
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AND TO TELELETTER PEKING, ÜKREP JLG HONG KONG, BTC HONG KONG AND TO TELELETTER WASHINGTON
FROM FOR
:JOHN ASHTON
Dr L Bristow-Smith, FED,
COPY TO : RAJ Bunten Esq, HKD, FCO
RF Wye Esq, RAD, FCO
N J Cox Esq, Peking
AR Paul Esq, UKREP JLG Hong Kong J Smith-Laittan Esq, BTC Hong Kong Chancery, Washington
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Date:
21 October 1993
US/CHINA: HUMAN RIGHTS
1. I attended a dinner given on 18 October by Hong Kong entrepreneur and builder of Chinese highways Gordon Wu for John Shattuck, US Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and his colleague Eric Schwartz of the National Security Council, who had just arrived in Hong Kong after their much-anticipated visit to China. I thought you and copy addressees might be interested in an account of what they said, which on some points went beyond their remarks in public. (A copy of Shattuck's press statement follows by fax, for FED, Peking and Washington only).
2. Shattuck explained that his main objective had been to leave his Chinese interlocutors in no doubt that the linkage between MFN and Chinese performance on human rights was real. Without significant progress on human rights, the President would have no option but to withdraw MFN on 3 June 1994. If the decision had to be taken now, China would lose MFN. Shattuck was not sure whether Chinese Leaders were yet convinced of this. Some might still calculate that they could retain MFN with a few token prisoner releases. He urged Hong Kong visitors to China to do their best to dispel any such
illusions.
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