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And is the clock to be turned back on that moment now? Maybe for a bit, but surely not for long. Can you govern Hong Kong well against the grain of public sentiment and aspiration? Can you deny people what they've been promised? Can you sell them counterfeit goods when they've experienced the real thing? Can you take away for good what is the best guarantee of Hong Kong's much promised autonomy, its decency and its stability? Hong Kong is a great city. Sensible. Prosperous. Spirited. Free. Can it really be other than that as this century folds into the next? The Right Hon. Chris Patten, who first visited Hong Kong in 1979, became Governor in July 1992.
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