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matters will give us an opportunity of encouraging them to move closer to the international main streams. And if we refuse to supply this power station the French will certainly step in, so the Chinese will get the technology anyway. In these circumstances I have concluded that the economic and political advantages of co-operation with the PRC on a project of this scale outweigh these non-proliferation concerns. 5. I am copying this minute to OD colleagues, Sir Robert Armstrong and the Secretaries of State for Energy and Industry.

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

28 July 1982

(FRANCIS PYM)

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