But he was a senior civil servant, and seemed to be the only technocrat who could credibly hold together Hong Kong’s disaffected civil service, which China knew was indispensable to governing the territory, regardless of its British heritage. But Tsang brought his own weaknesses to Hong Kong’s government – most notably, greed.
董建华的继任者曾荫权不情愿地被选中了。但他是资深公务员，也似乎是唯一一个能可信地保持心存不满的香港公职人员团结的技术官僚。中国明白，公务员是治理香港不可或缺的要素，尽管香港公务员制度继承了英国。但曾荫权给香港政府带来了他自己的弱点——其中最令人瞩目的便是贪婪。