Politics

The Hong Kong Handover in Pictures

Final Speech

The departing Governor, Chris Patten: "Now Hong Kong people are to run Hong Kong. That is the promise and that is the unshakeable destiny."

"When a great man leaves, the heavens open" - Chinese proverb. They duly did.

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