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The way as Ho Yin of Macao put it
at an interview on 2nd July,
1968
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Had there been no cultural Revolution in China, there would not have been the Macau Incident in December 1966, nor the
Confrontation in Hong Kong in 1967. Because of the Cultural
Revolution which is directed towards the pro-capitalist elements
within the Communist Party, the C.P.G. as well as the Chinese
Armed Forces, people involved tended to manifest themselves by
identifying themselves with the "Left" even if they err or have
to err, rather than to do what is right or what they believe to be right which might expose themselves to the criticism of being
capitalistic or tending towards capitalistic thinking. Because
of the presence of such an attitude or state of mind in everybody
involved the effectiveness in the control mechanism within the
well-organized C.P.G., the Chinese Armed Forces as well as the
Chinese Communist Party, from top to bottom, is greatly affected. So affected that no-one, perhaps other than Mao Tse Tung himself, dares to say no to a proposition which can be interpreted as in
the interests of the masses. Indeed, even Chairman Mao may not dare to vet, a proposition if it can be argued effectively that it
is in the interests of the masses. Criticisms can be laid against
the proposition after the events but not before. Thus remedies
lie in not repeating the same mistake if at all can be avoided, but nothing can prevent the trial of a proposition which is theoretically convincing.
2.
Thus when someone thought of the idea of using bombe as a means to make the Hong Kong British bend, not only could no-one effectively prevent it from being allowed to have a trial, but
every organisation involved jumped on the bandwagon and had a go
with itg it had to take its course of a few months, when it became obvious that such a course in alienating the masses, which gave the heirachy an opportunity to criticise the method as contrary to Chairman Mac's political strategy of not resorting to violence, but to continue to quarrel, to contest, to provoke and to fight by
"oivil means",
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