China Unveils Plan to Tie Hong Kong, Macau Closer to Mainland

Re:China Unveils Plan to Tie Hong Kong, Macau Closer to Main... by em500 on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @02:42PM (#19202067)

Not easy at all, good luck getting it accepted by both the UK parliament and by Deng Xiaoping. People have this notion that the UK could do whatever they wanted in HK before 1997 (or at least before the negotiations with the PRC in the 1980s). But recently declassified documents revealed that the PRC was already pressuring the UK about HK affairs back in the 1950s.

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Re:China Unveils Plan to Tie Hong Kong, Macau Closer to Main... by NeedMoreTea on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @02:59PM (#19202226)

They weakened status well before the joint agreement. Yet right after Tiananmen Square, and after the joint agreement, they managed to rapidly dream up a selection of 50k families, so they were also far from powerless to act without Deng Xiaoping's approval. Thousands of HKers were leaving after Tiananmen, to anywhere that would take them, so it's not like it would have deprived China of those citizens after 97 handover.

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Re:China Unveils Plan to Tie Hong Kong, Macau Closer to Main... by em500 on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @06:13PM (#19203932)

There's a big difference between accepting 50k and 5million people, on both the British and the Chinese side.

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Re:China Unveils Plan to Tie Hong Kong, Macau Closer to Main... by frosted-flakes on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @09:47PM (#19214110)

50k families is more like 200k–300k people.

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