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A QUESTION OF PERSONALITY
5.*
This source stated that the CPG saw this year's
change of Governor as a complicating factor:
(a) The new Governor was not as deeply familiar
with Hong Kong and Chinese affairs and culture
as his predecessors.
6.
(b)
His circle of advisors (not identified)
"bad individuals" who took advantage
contained
of this situation to obtain rapid promotion.
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He said that the CPG's expectations. about its
ability to cope with the Governor had been disappointed:
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(a) Before his visit to Peking, the CPG had
believed that he
was anxious to negotiate a
deal.
(b) The CPC had also
mobilising
believed that his skill in
the community and
communicating
with the media would allow him to abandon his
"principled positions" in order
bargain with the CPC.
to strike a
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