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The CPG's corruption and inefficiency, and its

hostility towards all criticism and dissent

onsiderable

within

scepticism

package.

the

PRC,

generate

about its motives for attacking the

(d)

HKG is far more effective in communicating

with the

general public than the CPG's local

The Governor's personal commitment

meeting the community has made him a very

apparatus.

to

familiar

offsetting the "foreign" and

personality with the public at large,

"newcomer"

labels, despite attacks on his "motives".

11.

The CPG can expect to do much better in winning

support among the local elites:

(a)

Business and professional leaders believe that

the

Governor should have sought first to win

the support of local elites. They did not

expect him

to

public.

to

overcome the cultural barriers

directly

with the general

communicating

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