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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 co...

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 treat...

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. ...

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... 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...

Stops free speech, arrests people and always has looming over them the prospect of them being incarcerated. now, in everything you have written about your time in hong kong and the handover, and in these diaries, you suggest that the british government and british business were too subservient to china. you suggested that that was counterproductive. i mean, presumably, given what we are hearing from nato now — they've just released a statement saying china's "stated ambitions and coercive policies challenge our "interests, securities and values." are you pleased to hear that kind of much mor...