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1982 May 6 - 1982 Sep 13
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/670
China (Prime Minister's visit to China, Hong Kong & Japan, September 1982: briefing) (Part 1)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 257
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82 Jul 12 Mo Major China: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chinese Ambassador to UK) [MT's visit to China, the future of Hong Kong, soft loan to China, defence sales] [declassified 2012]
82 Jul 27 Tu Major China: FCO letter to No.10 ("Chinese Ambassador's Dinner for the Prime Minister: Letter on Subjects Raised") [draft letter to Chinese Ambassador: soft loan to China, defence sales, MT's visit to China] [declassified 2012]
82 Jul 28 We Major China: Armstrong minute to Coles ("Prime Minister's Visit to the Far East, 16th-29th September 1982") [draft objectives and briefing] [declassified 2012]
82 Jul 28 We Major China: FCO letter to No.10 ("Aid to China") [MT's visit to China] [declassified 2012]
82 Jul 30 Fr Major China: Coles minute to MT ("Media Arrangements for Japan, China and Hong Kong") [MT's visit to China] [declassified 2012]
82 Jul 30 Fr Major China: No.10 letter to Overseas Development Administration ("Aid to China") [MT's visit to China] [declassified 2012]
82 Aug 4 We Major China: Coles minute to MT ("Letter to the Chinese Ambassador") [revised letter to the Chinese Ambassador: soft loan to China] [declassified 2012]
82 Aug 4 We Major China: FCO letter to No.10 ("Letter to the Chinese Ambassador") [comments on revised letter to the Chinese Ambassador: soft loan to China] [declassified 2012]
82 Aug 5 Th Major China: Coles letter to Chinese Ambassador to UK ("Letter to the Chinese Ambassador") [MT's visit to China, soft loan to China, defence sales] [declassified 2012]
82 Aug 10 Tu Major China: Lord Shepherd letter to MT (future of Hong Kong) [MT's visit to China] [declassified 2012]
82 Aug 11 We Major China: Baker minute to MT ("Cable and Wireless: Guangdong") [MT's visit to China] [declassified 2012]
82 Aug 13 Fr Major China: Y.K. Pao letter to MT (future of Hong Kong: Chinese magazine articles) [MT's visit to China] [declassified 2012]
82 Aug 19 Th Major China: Julian Amery MP letter to MT (MT's visit to China) [declassified 2012]
82 Aug 24 Tu Major China: FCO letter to No.10 ("China Daily: Message from the Prime Minister") [MT's visit to China] [declassified 2012]
82 Aug 25 We Major China: Flesher minute to MT (MT message for publication in China Daily: redraft) [MT's visit to China] [declassified 2012]
82 Aug 25 We Major China: Pym minute to MT ("Aid to China") [MT's visit to China; MT: "[Aid offered] is so derisory compared with what they have asked for...that it will do no good at all"] [declassified 2012]
82 Aug 26 Th Major China: FCO letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to China: Possible Stop-Over in Canton") [MT's visit to China; MT: "I must not cut down the time in Hong Kong"] [declassified 2012]
82 Aug 26 Th Major East Asia: MT letter to Sir Raymond Lygo (MT's visit to the Far East: British access to Japanese and Chinese markets) [declassified 2012]
82 Aug 27 Fr Major China: Baker minute to MT ("Visit to China") [MT's visit to China: urges MT to make stopover in Canton] [declassified 2012]
82 Aug 31 Tu Major China: FCO letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to China: Possible Visit to Canton") [MT's visit to China] [declassified 2012]