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f. The New Left: the New Left elements, the only groups
deliberately intent upon causing disorder in Hong Kong, are
disunited, have little popular appeal and are squeezed between
general apathy and outright communist hostility. Their hard
core strength is only around 100. They nevertheless constitute
a slight threat in that they are irresponsible; and
International terrorism. Hong Kong has an international
airport, an important harbour, and a large business and
diplomatic community. It thus contains the sort of targets
which have been selected by international terrorists for
outrages elsewhere in the world. Though the present assess-
ment is that Hong Kong is no more likely than the UK to be
used for such incidents, the threat of terrorist action is a
real one.
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