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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]

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