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THE CASE FOR HKG

TASK

TAX I

4

At

How should HKG respond to the major allegations

against the

Address?

constitutional

package presented in the Policy

OVERVIEW

2.

Victory",

A companion paper, "The CPG Seeks Psychological

analyses the strategy which the CPG has adopted to

deprive HKG

of public support for the constitutional

package. This paper reviews the avenues open to counter CPG

propaganda attacks.

3.

(a)

(b)

The paper's starting points are:

the

widespread inclination among even the

senior ranks of the civil service to assume

that

HKG

has adopted a hostile or

confrontational attitude to the CPG; and

the

tendency for HKG's case to

default because

be lost by

of a failure

to brief

aggressively HKG's natural allies.

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