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Ideally Britain would have kept HK island and/or transferred HK to Taiwan rather than China. But I guess that wasn't workable. So the only option for HKers is e
by wendyshu 6y ago
Ideally Britain would have kept HK island and/or transferred HK to Taiwan rather than China. But I guess that wasn't workable. So the only option for HKers is emigration.
- FabHK 6y agoPlus, back when the Sino-British Joint Declaration was negotiated (1984) there was already this heady optimism in the air that democracy was inevitable (as expressed in Francis Fukuyama's 1992 The End of History and the Last Man), and the thinking was that by the time HK would lose its autonomy and become just another Chinese city (2047), China would be a wonderful democracy. Oh well.
- throw443563 6y agoBritain should have just accepted them back in 1997. Instead they tried to stop Portugal from giving the people of Macau citizenship because they were afraid the people of Hong Kong would ask for citizenship too.