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Never should have given up the island in the first place. The shitshow divestment of the Empire is the reason for many of the ethnographic and political confli
by huffmsa 6y ago
Never should have given up the island in the first place.
The shitshow divestment of the Empire is the reason for many of the ethnographic and political conflicts the world currently faces.
- frank2 6y agoThey didn't have a choice: if they hadn't given it up at the negotiating table, Beijing would've just taken it from them by force.
- billfruit 6y agoAlso like 80% of the territories of HK was due to go to China in 1997 due to they being leased by UK only for 99 years. Holding on to remaining 20% of the territories would have been really untenable.
- La1n 6y ago>Never should have given up the island in the first place. They should never have colonized it in the first place.
- tasubotadas 6y agoWhy? HKers are better off now because of that and probably the UK is now better off as well.
- La1n 6y agoMaybe there are better off now, but for a long time people lived under segregation and were discriminated against, the majority population had no say in any of the politics for a long time. Erasure of culture and language of the natives. Import of opium, an addictive drug, with war being fought over being able to keep selling it. Colonialism has a giant impact on a people. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2348771 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2348771 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wretched_of_the_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wretched_of_the_Earth