I want to know more about Hong Kong, specifically the handover from Britain to China.
Why did it happen? Was it good for Hong Kong? Was it good for Britain/China?
I want to know more about Hong Kong, specifically the handover from Britain to China. Why did it happen?
>Why did it happen?
Britain signed a treaty with China that let it lease Hong Kong for 99 years
>Was it good for Hong Kong?
Yes, the British did much to develop Hong Kong and make it a modern trading hub
>Was it good for Britain/China?
Bad for both, Britain lost control over it and it has caused China headaches ever since
>>Why did it happen?
>Britain signed a treaty with China that let it lease Hong Kong for 99 years
The Brits owed Hong Kong _Island_ in perpetuity but the New Territories were leased for only for 99 years and when they had to be handed back to China, the island was no longer viable as a colony.
I mean is it good for Hong Kong to be part of (kinda?) China now?
>Why did it happen?
Deng Xiaoping told Thatcher that the PLA had enough tanks and manpower to take Hong Kong and he was obviously right, the British weren't going to fight a war against a nuclear power over this.
>Was it good for Hong Kong?
No, HK's selling point was being a bridge between east and west, inside China it just became another city and has lost out to places like Shanghai and Shenzhen
>Was it good for Britain/China?
For China, obviously, they got a rich city. Britain lost a rich city, but it was a peaceful process as opposed to a literal war like the Portuguese loss of Goa.
The British made the 99 year deal with a China that no longer existed.
They could have just as easily handed it over to the Republic of China(Taiwan).
I don't think PR China would risk a nuclear war for Hong Kong.
One British sub could easily knock out several PR Chinese cities.
The math was on Britain's side.
The United Kingdom was one of the first to recognize the PRC, already in 1950.
That doesn't mean they have to believe that the PRC is entitled to an Chinese Empire claim.
While Nixon and the US wanted to court the PRC, the British should have been courting the Soviets.
Recognition of the PRC as China also means recognition of the PRC as a successor to whatever state they had recognised as China prior to the PRC.
>While Nixon and the US wanted to court the PRC, the British should have been courting the Soviets.
The UK is a US vassal state, why would they improve relations with the rival superpower?
>One British sub could easily knock out several PR Chinese cities.
"Let's make Britain an international pariah over a single fricking city largely populated by non-Brits"
yeah nah mate
>The math was on Britain's side
If that was true they wouldn’t have left. Dengist China wasn’t Argentina and bongoloids screaming into their pillows at night over Hong Kong (the last big reminder of British imperial decline) can’t change that
>oi mate we're going to sell you opium for a fackin laugh and then invade your country and steal your lahd when you retaliate against us pushing drugs into your country
As a Chang I used to feel bad for Brits getting flooded by nogs, pakis and poojeets but now I think it couldn't have happened to a more deserving race. Genocide Britshits.
>ni hao, we're going to flood your county with fentanyl and give them brain damage with tik tok
What can I say, payback's a b***h whitoid. Choke on it.
So was Hong Kong part of the EU/CTA? Could British/Irish/French people just move and live there?
Most colonial holdings and still existing overseas territories weren't/aren't considered part of the EU.
>I want to know more about Hong Kong
Excellent fictionalized history of Hong Kong and with the success of Clavell's new Shogun tv mini-series, they're probably make a tv series from this book also though they'll probably have to film in Taiwan, because of Chinese fascist-commies in actual Hong Kong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai-Pan_(novel)
Don't forget Macao, the much older Portugeuse neighbor.
i heard in this island they filmed interracial porn with chinese women from the mainland and african men from angola
why the portuguese do that?
Source?