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It matters to everyone [sic] of us that the press tell it as it is, not as the government wants us to hear.
— Chris Patten
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Source, in full Address to the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong (May 2020). Rachel Wong, "Ex-Hong Kong governor Chris Patten 'condemned to everlasting infamy' for 'meddling,' says Beijing spokesperson", Hong Kong Free Press (22 May 2020)
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