Re:China to Allow State-Security Agents to Police Hong Kong
by billfruit on Friday May 22, 2020 @10:25AM
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Also New Territories can have reverted back to China without need for any agreement with the British, since they were only on lease to British till 1997 and was not a British possession in the legal sense.
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Re:China to Allow State-Security Agents to Police Hong Kong
by JumpCrisscross on Friday May 22, 2020 @10:29AM
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> New Territories can have reverted back to China without need for any agreement with the British
But they didn’t. An agreement was reached.
“I could have walked away, but didn’t” isn’t a valid reason for breaking a deal.