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Hong Kong: Howe minute to MT (“Hong Kong Calls”) [“There was no request from the Chinese side for explicit affirmation of the premise that sovereignty and the right of administration over Hong Kong would pass to China in 1997”] [declassified 2013]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1059 f170
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 5pp
Themes: Commonwealth (general), Foreign policy (Asia), British policy towards Hong Kong