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because it is unnecessary to secure their objectives
and possibly also because they fear the consequoncos.
(b) In the formont and extronion of the Cultural Revolution
the Chinoso Govornmont can be expected to react
strongly to incidonts in Hong Kong oven though thoy
arc still conscious of the economic importance of the
Colony. Increasingly those rocctions are ovolving into
a dofinito policy of hostility to the Hong Kong Government.
(c) The objects of this policy appear for the moment to bo to
humiliato tho British and to cause then to comply with
Chinoso donands as they did tho Portuguese in Macao.
Thoro is no evidenco yot to suggest that the Chinoso
Govornmont have decided to tako over tho Colony.
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MEANS (OTHER THAN MILITARY) BY WHICH CHINA CAN EXERCISE PRESSURE
7.
Thoro aro a wide range of nonsures open to tho Chinese which, carried
out in a concortod pattern, could wear dom our resistanco.
8. Fononting Disturbances. It is not difficult in the crowdod conditions
and volatile atmosphoro of Hong Kong to instigato riotous dononstrations,
Those can be casily aggravated by tho sprooding of falso rumours, by
playing on tho xenophobic tondoncics of the Chinese people, by paying
criminal and hooligan olonents of the population to take part, etc. Such
disturbances can be made difficult to handle by using women and childron
as a scrcon (as in Macao). If widespread and prolongod, they could exhaust
tho Polico. Accompanied by a systomatic campaign of subversion and
intimidation they could load to the disintegration of the predominantly
Chinese forco, fully committing the military forcos to the task of
maintaining internal security.
9. Thor: arc, hotovor, only about 11,000 hard core Communists in the
Colony out of a total population of 4 million. While porhaps ono-cighth of
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