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HKG's Response

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TEX I

13.

The best counter to CPG pressures on this front is

for continued public demonstrations:

(a) of

HMG's

total

commitment

to

the

constitutional package; and

(b) of

Kong

its determination to leave HKG and the Hong

community

take the package forward,

even in the face of CPG opposition (e.g., by a

more prominent

encounters).

role

for HKG officials in JLG

at Camble, JCG.

Un Carin.

THE CONFIDENCE FACTOR

The CPG has begun an intensive campaign to destroy

confidence in HKG among the Hong Kong establishment:

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(a) LegCo Members have been lobbied intensively.

In some cases, they have been threatened.

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(b)

Civil

servants, generally, are under less

direct pressure mainly because they

limited personal contacts with the United

Front.

have

Nevertheless, CPG criticisms of the

constitutional package (e.g., as a "British

political plov") have found an audience.

CONFIDENTIAL 機密