> Hong Kong was seized by a colonial interloper. Why would China take orders from someone who took their land? The British Empire precedes and was multiple tim

> Hong Kong was seized by a colonial interloper. Why would China take orders from someone who took their land? The British Empire precedes and was multiple times longer than PRC's rule of mainland China. If you're wanting to play the legitimacy game, by your own measuring stick the UK still has more legitimacy over the rule of HK than the PRC.