China 'catastrophically broke its word' about Hong Kong, says Lord Patten

China's president has led celebrations to mark the 25th anniversary since the UK handed over Hong Kong to China.

Surrounded by a huge security presence, Xi Jinping used the occasion to claim the former colony has 'risen from the ashes'.

But the UK government says there has been a steady erosion of political and civil rights since Beijing tightened its control of the territory in 2019, with a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests.

Sky's Asia Correspondent Tom Cheshire reports.

[lowergraphs]

Fun fact about John Lee, he was a British passport holder until 2012 and his family still holds British citizenship. He is still eligible to claim British citizenship if he wants 🤣.

[lastChang]

When was the last time Xi Jinping said something truthfully?

[ehislqwezad]

China isn't Qing dynasty, Hong Kong is not China's. China is established in 1949, has 72 years old history only. China is split from Republic of China called Taiwan.

[chriselliott]

That's the problem with international agreements. Untrustworthy governments break them ...

[bogodoyandex]

Exactly the same as Britain breaking its word to Ireland over the protocol .

[kimcheng]

How did British get hold of Hong Kong in the first place?

[AK-ikbd]

And how many times has Britain kept its word on the world stage? And it still hasn’t changed - just look at what it’s doing around the Northern Ireland protocol

A Perfidious Albion indeed

[trevorstanding]

A One Party State not keeping it's promises ! Who could possibly have known.

[Dweller]

China didn’t keep its word to Hong Kong and that’s why Taiwan won’t go down without a fight.

[zhaomiaomiao]

In the past 300 years, Scotland's call for independence has not been interrupted. The King of England savagely slaughtered the Scottish people and suppressed the independence uprising. In 1948, Ireland officially seceded from the Commonwealth of Nations and became fully independent. And behind this is the centuries-long resistance of the Irish people to British rule. Today, there are still people trying to bully China with colonial means, then go to war. Britain is definitely the first country to be wiped from the earth! Small island country, thought it was 100 years ago.

[luckyluke]

UK just broke its words in Brexit with N.Ireland Protocol, America broke its words and signature on Iran deal. China isn’t the only one not keeping it’s words.

[Dazbog]

And what did Britain do with Northern Ireland protocol?

[abdisamadhirsi]

These people must be delusional. Where is hong kong? it is in china and always in chinesse territory. What the hell britian doing in hong kong in the first place? It is thousands of kms away from england. Imagine china rulling northern irland or scotland?

[知识与趣味]

HK people voted with their feet by leaving HK

[bogodoyandex]

As a Chinese I think it's time to be more concerned about the situation of Scottish and Irish people. I'm sorry that we Chinese didn't know much about these two places in the past. We in China will be more concerned about the situation of the people in these two places in the future.

[chrisbrown-jwfz]

Let's bankrupt Walmart and get even.

[AreYouGray]

Chinese bots all over the comments lmao

[TheNeverposts]

Quick Recap: HK was NEVER a democracy under British rule

[chrisbrown-jwfz]

Let's bankrupt Dollar General and Dollar Tree too.

[mypeeps]

chinese bots are all over the comments.