The secret negotiations behind the Hong Kong handover

Re:The secret negotiations behind the Hong Kong handover by justicezyx on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @12:54AM (#14592294)

Hong Kong was severed from China, "The people of Hong Kong were not party to the discussions, nor were they consulted about the final decision, which had a profound effect on their futures and freedoms"

Then it was returned in the same fashion.

Ironically, the people who desired to return to their homeland, gradually lost their roots and become indifferent to the idea that Hong Kong is an integral part of China.

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Re:The secret negotiations behind the Hong Kong handover by blackbagboys on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @01:02AM (#14592322)

There were only a few thousand people in Hong Kong when it became a British possession. The population at the time of the negotiations was descended from people who decided to leave China for a foreign jurisdiction.

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Re:The secret negotiations behind the Hong Kong handover by justicezyx on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @01:25AM (#14592384)

So it's ok to invade usa and force the sever of Alaska because there are only 738,432 people, and then force economic sanction so that the mainland usa is super suppressed and migrate to Alaska, right?

This theoretically is much harder to do due to the geographic situation, but it's not far from your reasoning.

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