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INEVITABLY, HOWEVER, LU'S MEETINGS WITH SEVERAL POLITICAL GROUPS HAVE BEEN WIDELY REPORTED DURING THE COURSE OF THE WEEK, AS HAVE SOME OF HIS COMMENTS, IN PARTICULAR CONCERNING MEMBERS OF THE UDHK. OF THE LIBERAL POLITICAL GROUPS, LU MET THE ASSOCIATION FOR DEMOCRACY AND PEOPLE'S LIVELIHOOD ON 9 JANUARY, AND MEETING POINT ON 12 JANUARY. HE DID NOT MEET ANY UDHK REPRESENTATIVES, AND COMMENTED PUBLICLY THAT THERE WAS NO ''COMMON LANGUAGE WITH SOME PEOPLE IN THE UDHK WHO ''WANTED TO OVERTHROW THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT''.
6. OF THE MORE CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL GROUPS, LU MET REPRESENTATIVES OF THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC FOUNDATION ON 10
JANUARY AND THE CO-OPERATIVE RESOURCES CENTRE ON 11 JANUARY. HE
DID NOT MEET THE HK DEMOCRATIC FOUNDATION.
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LU ALSO MET REPRESENTATIVES OF VARIOUS PRO-CHINA
ORGANISATIONS, INCLUDING THE FEDERATION OF TRADES, THE FEDERATION OF EDUCATION WORKERS AND THE FEDERATION OF NEW TERRITORIES
ASSOCIATIONS. HE WAS GIVEN DINNER BY LI KA-SHING ON 8 JANUARY AND
HELD A MEETING WITH THE ONE COUNTRY, TWO SYSTEMS ECONOMIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON 10 JANUARY.
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TRUE TO WHAT NCNA HAD TOLD US, LU HAS MADE VERY FEW PUBLIC STATEMENTS. WHAT COMMENTARY THERE HAS BEEN HAS MOSTLY BEEN FROM
THE LOCAL GROUPS FOLLOWING THEIR MEETING WITH HIM. NOTHING
STARTLING HAS EMERGED.
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LU'S SELECTIVE APPROACH TO POLITICAL GROUPS HAS BEEN
INTERPRETED HERE AS AN ATTEMPT TO DIVIDE AND RULE THE LIBERAL
CAMP. THE FEW PUBLIC COMMENTS HE MADE WHICH WERE OF ANY NOTE WERE ON THIS SUBJECT, AND SUGGEST THAT THE CHINESE MAY IN FUTURE DRAW
A LINE BETWEEN THOSE LIBERAL POLITICIANS WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE HK ALLIANCE, WHOM THEY WILL CONTINUE TO SHUN AND THOSE WHO ARE NOT EVEN THOUGH THEY MAY BE MEMBERS OF THE UDHK.
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