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Hong Kong: Ricketts letter to Coles (“Hong Kong”) [Lee Kwan Yew’s view “that any approach to the Chinese requires a mixture of firmness and realism”] [declassified 2013]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1059 f182
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 3pp
Themes: Commonwealth (general), Foreign policy (Asia), British policy towards Hong Kong