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PDF 83 Nov 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Hong Kong: MT letter to Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada (future of Hong Kong) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Loh letter to Coles (Hong Kong Observers) [presentation to Peking] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Visit of Spanish Foreign Minister: Remarks on Hong Kong”) [“Questions of sovereignty and territorial integrity could not be open for discussion”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Chinese Remarks to Thorn”) [“By putting an end to the colonialist era, Britain would enhance her reputation”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Chinese Remarks to Thorn”) [“By putting an end to the colonialist era, Britain would enhance her reputation”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“MIT: Future of Hong Kong: Meeting with Yao Guang”) [“Yao was generally defensive”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO telegram to UKE Athens (“ Future of Hong Kong”) [“the Chinese still suspect us of trying to engineer a ‘co-administration’ of Hong Kong after 1997”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Ambassador’s meeting with Yao Guang”) [“I do not think we should let the Chinese rush us into further concessions”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Ricketts minute to Coles (“Future of Hong Kong”) [Cradock’s meeting with Yao Guang] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Armstrong minute to Coles (“JIC Assessments on Hong Kong”) [MT “does not wish the circulation list to be extended in this way”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Heseltine minute to Howe (“RN Task Group Deployment to Hong Kong”) [“Cancellation of INVINCIBLE’s visit would come as a bitter disappointment”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“ Future of Hong Kong”) [“premise that both sovereignty and the right of adminstration will pass to China in 1997”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Ricketts minute to MT (“Future of Hong Kong”) [“the Chinese reacted reasonably favourably to the line which our negotiators took at the meeting on 19/20 October”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“ Future of Hong Kong”) [“need to clarify our present strategy and objectives”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Hong Kong: Development of the Governmental Structure”) [“there are growing signs of public interest in greater participation in the running of Hong Kong”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Ricketts letter to Coles (“Future of Hong Kong”) [Cradock’s meeting with Yao Guang] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 12 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO telegram to UKE Beijing (“Future of Hong Kong”) [“the need to keep EXCO with us and to avoid giving the impression to them that we are giving away points too soon”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Sixth Plenary Round: First Day”) [Yao: “Hong Kong had always been Chinese territory”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Sixth Round: First Day”) [“By and large this was a negative session”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Sixth Round, Second Day: Comment”) [“This was a pretty bleak session”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Sixth Round, Second Day: Comment”) [“They repeated their objections to discussing detail”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Coles minute to Ricketts (“Hong Kong”) [Observers delegation to Peking] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Sixth Round”) [“The Chinese returned repeatedly to the importance of the issues of principle”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Calls on Chinese leaders”) [“would be a logical step”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Future Tactics”) [“This has been a discouraging session. In the light of it the road ahead looks even bleaker than we had envisaged”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Coles note to MT (“Tomorrow’us Meeting on Hong Kong”) [“will be about negotiating tactics and I do not think any financial issues will arise”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Ricketts letter to Coles (“Hong Kong: Negotiations with the Chinese”) [“no real progress was made”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Lindsay Wilkinson minute to MT (“OD(K): Hong Kong”) [Cradock’s observation on talks, advice on future tactics] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Future Tactics”) [“The Chinese are deeply and immovably entrenched on sovereignty and administration”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Consultation with EXCO”) [“The Council was in a very sober mood”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Consultation with EXCO”) [“we must ensure that the formula we use is as unambiguous as we can make it”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Ricketts minute to Coles (“Future of Hong Kong”) [use of Cradock’s formula in EXCO] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong”) [SY Chung: “we have reached a cross-roads in the talks”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Coles letter to Fall (“Hong Kong”) [conversation with Lee Kuan Yew] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Victor Rothschild memo to MT (“The Future of Hong Kong”) [“Chinese intentions towards Hong Kong after 1997 have at last become clear”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Dinner with Yao Guang”) [“Our mutual understanding had been enhanced”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO telegram to UKE Beijing (“Future of Hong Kong: Next Session of Talks”) [“The Chinese request to receive the rest of the working papers quickly is interesting”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Ricketts letter to Coles (“Future of Hong Kong: Possible Visit by EXCO”) [“the odds probably are that the Unofficials themselves will press very hard for a visit and for reassurances on HMG’s position”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Ricketts minute to Coles (“Hong Kong: Mr Robert Adley MP”) [Adley “has tended to be critical of the Hong Kong Government and of the Unofficials there in taking an unrealistic view of the negotiations”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Confidence”) [“a growing feeling that as the Chinese appear to be dictating the terms, the talks are irrelevant”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: 7th Round, First Day: Comment”) [“perhaps the most positive session so far”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Ricketts minute to Coles (“Hong Kong: Briefing the Opposition”) [“Parliamentary interest generally has increased considerably in recent months”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: 7th Round: Second Day, Comment”) [“The good atmosphere which was established yesterday was maintained today”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Seventh Round of Talks”) [“Defence of Hong Kong SAR will be the responsiblity of the central government”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Seventh Round of Talks”) [defence forces] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Calls on Chinese Leaders”) [“an unusual opportunity to put our views directly to the people in decision-making positions”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“MIPT: Future of Hong Kong: Calls on Chinese Leaders”) [“an unusual opportunity to put our views directly to the people in decision-making positions”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Calls on Chinese Leaders”) [MT comment: “The most difficult point is that of acceptability of any solution to the people of Hong Kong”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Calls on Chinese Leaders”) [“considering the possibility of withdrawing British troops from Hong Kong well before 1997”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: The Way Ahead”) [“we can reasonably expect to have fairly detailed discussion over the whole area of the Chinese plan”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 10 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Cockfield letter to MT (“China- Hong Kong”) [visit to China] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 10 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Goodall minute to MT (“Future of Hong Kong”) [seventh round of talks] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Calls on Leaders”) [“the sooner we can prevent the idea of a PLA presence in Hong Kong taking root the better”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong”) [“concern about where the present course of action is leading”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 83 Dec 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 83 Dec 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Cradock despatch (“The Hong Kong negotiations”) [“For the Chinese the political objective of resuming sovereignty including the right of administration has been paramount”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Peking TelNo 1325 Future of Hong Kong: Calls on Leaders”) [“more should be made of the need to maintain domestic and international confidence if stability and prosperity are to be preserved”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Ricketts minute to Coles (“Future of Hong Kong: Sir P Cradock’s Calls on Chinese Leaders”) [comments and instructions on line to take] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO telegram to UKE Beijing (“Future of Hong Kong Calls on Leaders”) [“Note with pleasure the progress made in the latest phase of negotiations”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Coles minute to Ricketts (“Future of Hong Kong: Sir Percy Cradock’s calls on Chinese Leaders”) [instructions to Cradock] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe minute to Heseltine (“Future of Hong Kong: Defence and Internal Security”) [“questions directly relating to defence have been raised for the first time”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Cromer letter to MT (proposed talks with his son) [negotiating position] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Lunch with Yao Guang”) [“We needed to speed up our discussions on arrangements after 1997”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: ‘Umelco’”) [“It was a tense and in some parts emotional meeting”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Heseltine minute to Howe (“Future of Hong Kong: Defence and Internal Security”) [“we must firmly resist any suggestion that Chinese troops should be sanctioned in Hong Kong after 1997”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Dinner with Ji Pengfei: Chinese Garrison”) [“it would be impossible to send troops without publicity”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Constitutional and Governmental Development”) [new Territories Council] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Dinner with Ji Pengfei”) [Ji: “the first government of the SAR might be produced by consultation rather than election”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Meeting with Ji Pengfei”) [“On detail, there were some signs of a disposition to compromise”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Call on Zhao Ziyang”) [“the Chinese side were willing to discuss anything with us so long as their basic principles were not infringed”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Meeting with Zhao Ziyang”) [“it would now be possible and necessar to expedite the pace of discussions so as to lead to agreement at an early date”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Meeting with Zhao Ziyang”) [“Zhao said that one aspect of China’s sovereignty over Hong Kong would be China’s right to station troops there”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Coles letter to Ricketts (“Hong Kong”) [“the Prime Minister has noted from recent telegrams that the Chinese are reluctant to envisage progress towards democratic institutions in Hong Kong before 1997”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Roger Henning to Martin Berthoud (the situation) [“every member of the Chinese business community in Hong has a differing opinion”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Hong Kong observers’s paper (Sino-British talks) [as given to Chinese Government] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Butler minute to Fall (reports on Robin McLaren) [MT “felt that the number of reports made it incumbent on the Government to make thorough inquiries”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Butler minute to Fall (“Hong Kong”) [proposed paper by Youde to EXCO] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe minute to MT (“Future of Hong Kong: Constitutional and Governmental Development”) [proposed paper “examining the scope for increasing internal self-government in Hong Kong”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe minute to Heseltine (“Future of Hong Kong”) [papers for OD(K) meeting] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Constitutional and Governmental Development”) [draft EXCO paper] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Hilton Cheong-Leong letter to MT (statement to Urban Council) [“British colonialism, no matter how benevolent and efficient it is, should in due course be replaced by self-administration by Hong Kong people”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Submission to Ministers - Working Paper on Future Security”) [“The Security issue has come to the fore earlier than anticipated”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Butler minute to Coles (Robin McLaren) [approach to Lord Cromer’s son] [declassified 2013]
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