the patriotic instincts of chief executive tung chee hwa rather than a desire to assert hong kong's separate identity have been the main motivating factor in introduction of the bill tung himself owes a personal debt to the prc government his family's shipping conglomerate orient overseas was bailed out for the sum of us million by chinese government owned companies in the s removed this since this wasn't the main motivating factor hk is constitutionally required to pass these laws