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The resignation of Chief Executive Tung in March 2005 indicates that the government in China, headed by President Hu Jintao, has reached the limits of its patience with pro-democracy forces in Hong Kong. Beijing has sent a clear signal that it expects the new administration, headed by Tung's chief secretary, Donald Tsang, to move much more aggressively to implement controversial anti-subversion legislation, and to come down hard in the event of significant displays of opposition to the measure. The official position in China will continue to be that political activity will be permitted as long as it does ...

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