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Lord Chris Patten, celým jménem Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, je anglický konzervativní politik, bývalý poslanec parlamentu a předseda Konzervativní strany .

Mezi lety 1992 a 1997 byl posledním guvernérem Hongkongu .

Poté působil jako evropský komisař pro vnější vztahy .

Od roku 2003 je rektorem Oxfordské univerzity a spolupředsedou Mezinárodní krizové skupiny.

Články přispíval také do přílohy Kavárna českého deníku MF DNES . Wikipedia  

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“[…] 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.”

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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.

“It is not unusual for electorates to want contradictory things, and politicians often make promises accordingly.”

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Chris Patten kniha East and West

Chris Patten, East and West: The Last Governor of Hong Kong on Power, Freedom and the Future, Pan Books, second edition, 1999, page 45.

“Nevertheless, it is true that on 1 July 1997 Hong Kong became the only example of decolonization deliberately accompanied by less democracy and a weaker protection of civil liberties. This was a cause for profound regret, especially for the departing colonial power. But it was China's doing and China's decision. I am pleased that Britain narrowly avoided complicity in the dishonourable act of denying the citizens of free Hong Kong what they had been promised in 1984.”

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Chris Patten, East and West: The Last Governor of Hong Kong on Power, Freedom and the Future, Pan Books, second edition, 1999, page 83.

“Asians […] put more emphasis on order, stability, hierarchy, family and self-discipline than Westerners do.”

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Chris Patten, East and West: The Last Governor of Hong Kong on Power, Freedom and the Future, Pan Books, second edition, 1999, page 150.

“As governor, I experienced the vitality of life in a booming and free Asian city, saw routinely the best and worst aspects of human nature, and was made to revisit some of the principles in which I have always believed but to which I had rarely given much thought previously. In the darker hours of occasionally fretful nights I found myself face to face with the moral dimensions of political action to a greater extent than ever before.”

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Chris Patten, East and West: The Last Governor of Hong Kong on Power, Freedom and the Future, Pan Books, second edition, 1999, page 3.

“[About Hong Kong:] No other place has quite the same blend of East and West, ancient and modern, spectacular and humdrum.”

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Chris Patten, East and West: The Last Governor of Hong Kong on Power, Freedom and the Future, Pan Books, second edition, 1999, page 19.