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The HKPS data indicate very clearly:

(a) The community supports the joint stand taken by HMG/HKG in response to the CPG's demands;

Commands more support and provokes less opposition than the other two parties; and

(c) The CPG comes off worst

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CHALYSIS

TAL SUMP'S' FLAWS

15 difficult to know why the SCMP's survey was so unflattering about the "British" position in LIM absence OF ACR's raw data. However, in comparison to Le HKPS Survey, the questionnaire was:

(a)

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Ambiguous in referring to further concessions Co be made by HMG rather than distinguishing between HMG and HKG;

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vague in not indicating what further "concessions" to the PRC would be needed and,

particular, not referring to concessions on autonomy; and, in consequence,

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