there are historic moments where you speak to someone, and with christopher patton it can be five yearss ago, 20 years ago, it was an honor for francine lacqua and myself to speak to him today. hong kong went to a different phase, different history. here is lord patton. jinping is a new sort of chinese dictator. when i say new, different from his immediate predisaster. since 1997,s, and while they have been far from open in hong kong or in china, on the whole chinese leaders cap to their agreements on one country two systems, that hong kong could continue with a high degree of economy. what we have seen with xi jinping is a determination to strengthen the party control over everything. he has been throwing china's weight around, which is a danger to all democracies around the world and i think we need to be taken advantage of the coronavirus, which has been more difficult to deal with, the way it was covered up by secretive communist officials. he is trying to take advantage of that, not only in hong kong, but there are incursions by chinese troops into india. they've been throwing thei