calls for president putin to end the invasion. nato s secretary general, jens stoltenberg, insisted that ukraine must prevail as an independent state. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m sarah montague. when the uk handed hong kong back to china 25 years ago, the last words of the departing british governor to the people of the territory were, now hong kong people are to run hong kong. that is the promise, and that is the unshakeable destiny. the man who said those words, chris patten, now lord patten, is my guest today. has that promise been broken? and could the uk have done more to honour it? lord patten, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. has that promise, that hong kong would be run by hong kong people, been broken? yes. and it was based on the perhaps misguided assumption, which some of us had occasional doubts about, that the chinese were. the chinese communist party, let me make a distinction, would keep their word, and they have pretty comprehens
the man who said those words, chris patten, now lord patten, is my guest today. has that promise been broken? and could the uk have done more to honour it? lord patten, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. has that promise, that hong kong would be run by hong kong people, been broken? yes. and it was based on the perhaps misguided assumption, which some of us had occasional doubts about, that the chinese were. the chinese communist party, let me make a distinction, would keep their word, and they have pretty comprehensively broken their word, which is contained in an international treaty lodged at the united nations called thejoint declaration. you said at the time, you wrote at the time in the hong kong diaries, which you ve just published, that, ultimately, after the handover, much will depend on whether the chinese communist party can actually be trusted to honour one country, two systems, which was the deal agreed. hong kong s former chief executive, cy leung, who s now v
as long as it takes in its fight against russia. president vladimir putin has accused nato of having imperial ambitions and said its members had no interest in the well being of ukrainians. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m sarah montague. when the uk handed hong kong back to china 25 years ago, the last words of the departing british governor to the people of the territory were, now hong kong people are to run hong kong. that is the promise, and that is the unshakeable destiny. the man who said those words, chris patten, now lord patten, is my guest today. has that promise been broken? and could the uk have done more to honour it? lord patten, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. has that promise, that hong kong would be run by hong kong people, been broken? yes. and it was based on the perhaps misguided assumption, which some of us had occasional doubts about, that the chinese were. the chinese communist party, let me make a distinction, would keep thei
Six lapel pins bearing the Civic Party's founding date are all Hong Kong veteran politician Alan Leong kept when the once-prominent opposition group cleared its headquarters and shuttered its doors days before the new year.But Leong held on to the green-and-purple pins bearing the date "19.03.06" the party's birthday.
just recently, reminding the british government, it never gave hong kong democracy. all the way, as he said, all the way until the last day of british rule in hong kong, the british government never gave the territory democracy. well, let me just unpick that for a moment. and the idea that cy leung should be regretting that is for the birds. i mean, he was always opposed. i know, but. is the uk in a position to criticise? yes. and i ll tell you why. hong kong was different from any other colony. we weren t in a position where we were preparing it for independence because part of it was held on a lease and it was always being returned to china. and when, in the 50s and 60s, occasionally, british governments used to talk about a faster pace of democratisation in hong kong, the chinese, including chairman lai, on one occasion, said, you can t do that. if you do that, people in hong kong will get the impression they re being prepared for independence, and they re not. they re comin