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Personal and party papers, Cambridge

China: No.10 briefing cards (“Meeting with [party chairman] Hu Yaobang”) [“Admire modernisation efforts - time right for rapid expansion of cooperation”] [released 2014]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: THCR 1/10/78 f60
Editorial comments: No date: listed by date of meeting. MT seems to have taken a last minute decision not to invite Hu Yaobang to Britain, cancelling the typed line.
Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 2pp
Themes: Trade, Foreign policy (Asia), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Science & technology, British policy towards Hong Kong