Former British governor of Hong Kong Chris Patten said it was "quite simply wrong" for Beijing to urge the city's Foreign Correspondents' Club to cancel a planned speech by an independence activist. Patten's comments came after China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs stepped in to ask the club to cancel the talk by Andy Chan of the Hong Kong National Party, a group threatened with a ban. Britain handed Hong Kong back to China in 1997 under an agreement which granted it limited autonomy and protected its way of life for 50 years, giving it rights unseen on the mainland including freedom of speech.
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