“[…] my anxiety is not that this community's autonomy would be usurped by Peking, but that it could be given away bit by bit by some people in Hong Kong.”

—  Chris Patten

Speech of Policy Address http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr96-97/english/lc_sitg/hansard/han0210.htm, Legislative Council of Hong Kong, 2 October 1996.

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