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Ahh, right, right. The people were given to one country by another. Silly people.

• RugnirViking 10y ago
  'given' to whom? The only way I can construe this is that the Chinese government 'gave' hong-kong on a 100 year lease and the UK held up this deal. Unless you expect the UK to avoid the deal, which while I wish they could, they aren't in a position to say no to china
  • EdHominem 10y ago
    They gave the people to another government because of a treaty signed before anyone currently alive was born. Yes, I do expect the UK to "renege" in the sense that I expect everyone else to support self-government for Hong Kong. Maybe not to fight for it with them, but at least not to support the abusers with petty arguments of legality, etc. > which while I wish they could, they aren't in a position to say no to china Right. The same way Taiwan is a separate country, and a great one, but we pretend it's Chinese and essentially property of China because we don't want to get in a fight. But might doesn't make right. We shouldn't give it the veneer of decency and legality. It's slavery through and through. If North Korea or Iran acted that way we'd call it like it is.