Hong Kong’s Values Will Live Longer Than Dictatorship: Former Hong Kong Governor

Hong Kong’s Values Will Live Longer Than Dictatorship: Former Hong Kong Governor
Lord Chris Patten on Sept. 17, 2013 in London, England. Lord Patten, Hong Kong's last British governor, testified before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China on Nov. 20, 2022. Oli Scarff/Getty Images
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Hong Kong’s last governor reassured Hongkongers that the Chinese regime would soon disappear and Hong Kong’s values would outlast any dictatorship during his Lunar New Year greeting to Hongkongers.

On Jan. 21, the day before the start of the New Lunar Year of the rabbit, Hong Kong Watch, a nonprofit human rights organization, shared a video of Lord Chris Patten of Barnes, the last governor of Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997.