Re:China signals plan to take full control of Hong Kong
by free_rms on Thursday May 21, 2020 @12:45PM
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> And given that the UK itself has most of these things, I highly doubt they'd arbitrarily deny them to a dependent territory without good reason (especially when their other territories all have some measure of representative government).
Setting aside HK, we apparently have very different reads on how the British Empire acted everywhere else, as well.
Re:China signals plan to take full control of Hong Kong
by koenigdavidmj on Thursday May 21, 2020 @12:51PM
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Apples to apples--I'm comparing Hong Kong in 1995 to the rest of the mostly-self-governing British territories in 1995. I'm not comparing them to India in the 1940s (as the most obvious example of the Brits' abuse of other peoples they ruled).
And given that the UK itself has most of these things, I highly doubt they'd arbitrarily deny them to a dependent territory without good reason (especially when their other territories all have some measure of representative government). Other comments describing Chinese threats provide one possible good reason.