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news Broken Promises: Ai Weiwei s powerful film about Hong Kong ★★★★☆ © Ai Weiwei Studio/BBC 23 years ago, Chris Patten, the outgoing Governor of Hong Kong, made an emotional farewell speech as Britain handed over its prized colony to China. With the Royal Yacht Britannia purring away in the harbour as the ultimate imperial getaway vehicle, he said, Now Hong Kong people are going to run Hong Kong. That is the promise and that is the unshakable destiny. The promise he was referring to was the one made in the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration, in which China agreed that it would run, in effect, a one country, two systems policy when it regained sovereignty of Hong Kong in 1997. It would allow the region to enjoy a high degree of autonomy for the next 50 years with its current social and economic systems, free press and lifestyle.

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