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| | CNN.com - Stubborn China stuck with HK boss - Jul. 10, 2003 |
 | | One of the many ironies surrounding Tung, 66, the son of legendary tycoon Tung Chao-Yung, is that from Beijing's perspective, ex-president Jiang Zemin was not exactly off the mark in 1996 when he designated the crew-cut, Shanghai-born businessman as the first SAR supremo. |
 | | Tung was made a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in the early 1990s, a sign that he was among a handful of patriotic businessmen being groomed for the post-1997 SAR top job. |
 | | In apparently carrying out Beijing's instructions, Tung is keen to enact a law to counter subversion, secession, sedition as well as the "leakage of state secrets" as soon as possible, and in any case, not later than mid-2004. |
| cnn.com /2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/07/09/hk.tung (1273 words) |
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