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THE CPG STRIKES BACK: A WORST-CASE SCENARIO

Kicketh HD

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identify how the CPG will seek to defeat the

Address's

то

Policy

HKG might respond.

constitutional

package and to suggest how

OVERVIEW

2.

The CPG has

sought to warn HKG of the perils of

constitutional package.

A range of

proceeding with the

retaliatory options has surfaced through CPG intermediaries,

sources within the CPG's Hong Kong apparatus, United Front

contacts, the pro-PRC press and spokesmen with varying

credentials.

K

3.

This

paper

reviews

the

entire

spectrum of

IL

dbest.

counter-measures open to

the

CPG which have been aired in

this way.

Some are

extreme and likely to viewed as such

even by the CPG.

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