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The hope in Beijing is no longer that the vote will be called off, the specialist said, but that the measure will fail to gain enough votes for passage. If it succeeds, he added, Beijing could be faced with a difficult decision about whether to react, particularly if Chen decided to use it as a basis for further independence moves during his final months in office.
"We are worried that if the referendum passes, they will use it as a way to push farther down the road to legal independence," the specialist said.
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