By Chris Yeung
Last governor Chris Patten bade farewell to Hong Kong with one anxiety. “My anxiety is this: 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,” he said in his swansong policy address delivered in October, 1996,
20 years on, Patten’s anxiety seems to have loomed in the former British colony.
The recent string of comments by the city’s ruling elites, which gives justification to the Liaison Office’s meddling with Hong Kong’s election and functioning of the legislature, has proved Patten’s fears are not unfounded.
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