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Christopher Francis Patten, Barão Patten de Barnes é um político conservador britânico.

Foi membro do Parlamento, ministro do gabinete e presidente do Partido Conservador. Enquanto exercia este último cargo, orquestrou a inesperada quarta vitória eleitoral consecutiva dos conservadores em 1992, porém perdeu seu próprio cargo na Câmara dos Comuns.

De 1992 a 1997 ocupou o cargo de último Comandante em Chefe e Governador Britânico de Hong Kong. Com a entrega de Hong Kong à República Popular da China, Patten passou a ser membro da Comissão Europeia, como responsável das relações exteriores, de 1999 a 2004. Após deixar este cargo, voltou ao Reino Unido e foi elevado à nobreza. Desde 1999 é reitor da Universidade de Newcastle e, desde 2003, reitor da Universidade de Oxford. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. Maio 1944
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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 livro 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 livro 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 83.

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

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Chris Patten livro 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 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 livro 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 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 livro 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 19.