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6.

On

opportunity

the basis of these anxieties, the CPG now has an

to build a new United Front campaign with two

goals:

(a)

first, to distance individuals and groups from

"colonialist" elements within HKG

the more

who

the

and

appear to have abandoned the interests of

territory's political and business elites;

(b) secondly,

to

unite. the community around a

common Chinese identity.

A BRITISH PLOT

7.

The

local CPG apparatus has made considerable

progress in attaching an "alien" and "colonialist" label to

constitutional package itself and to its public

the

proponents:

(a) Unlike

previous

constitutional reforms, HKG

was unable to discuss the package with ExCo or

to

undertake a public consultation exercise

(e.g., through Green and White Papers).

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