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1983 Nov 1 - 1983 Dec 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1059
Hong Kong (Future of Hong Kong) (Part 10)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 412
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83 Dec 29 Th Minor 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]
83 Dec 15 Th Major 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]
83 Dec 23 Fr Major Hong Kong: Howe minute to Heseltine (“Future of Hong Kong”) [papers for OD(K) meeting] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 23 Fr Major 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]
83 Dec 12 Mo Major 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]
83 Nov 16 We Major Hong Kong: Lindsay Wilkinson minute to MT (“OD(K): Hong Kong”) [Cradock’s observation on talks, advice on future tactics] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 2 We Major Hong Kong: Loh letter to Coles (Hong Kong Observers) [presentation to Peking] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 1 Tu Major Hong Kong: MT letter to Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada (future of Hong Kong) [released 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo Major 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]
83 Nov 11 Fr Major Hong Kong: Ricketts letter to Coles (“Future of Hong Kong”) [Cradock’s meeting with Yao Guang] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 16 We Major Hong Kong: Ricketts letter to Coles (“Hong Kong: Negotiations with the Chinese”) [“no real progress was made”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo Major 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]
83 Dec 13 Tu Major 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]
83 Nov 9 We Major Hong Kong: Ricketts minute to Coles (“Future of Hong Kong”) [Cradock’s meeting with Yao Guang] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 18 Fr Major Hong Kong: Ricketts minute to Coles (“Future of Hong Kong”) [use of Cradock’s formula in EXCO] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 7 We Major Hong Kong: Ricketts minute to Coles (“Hong Kong: Briefing the Opposition”) [“Parliamentary interest generally has increased considerably in recent months”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo Major 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]
83 Nov 10 Th Major 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]
83 Dec 21 We Major Hong Kong: Roger Henning to Martin Berthoud (the situation) [“every member of the Chinese business community in Hong has a differing opinion”] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 10 Th Major 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]