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THE CPC SEEKS PSYCHOLOGICAL VICTORY
ISSUE
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What
advantages
current
community and
is the CPG seeking to exploit in
phase of its campaign to demoralise the
weaken support for the constitutional package
presented in the Policy Address?
SHIFTING THE BATTLEGROUND
2.
The potential success of the CPG campaign can
easily be overestimated:
(a) Appeals
to emotion (e.g., anti-foreign
anti-colonial
or
sentiments) may be widely echoed
in public speeches and private conversations.
ExCo and LegCo members may feel obliged to
respond to the changing emotional climate.
(b) But the general public will not necessarily
feel obliged to convert emotion into active
opposition.
HKG's past performance, its
extensive social services and the public's
personal
experience of the PRC all operate to
keep the community operating rationally.
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