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Hong Kong was always Chinese, and was leased at gun point.

• lenerdenator 9mo ago
  And now the agreement that they'd be given a more liberalistic government is being torn up at gun point.
• lostlogin 9mo ago
  The government that leased it couldn’t really have less to do with the government that took it over in recent times. Things got considerably worse for Hong Kong, and the citizens didn’t want to join China. It’s certainly not a given that donating it to China was the right call.
  • _carbyau_ 9mo ago
    > It’s certainly not a given that donating it to China was the right call. The right call for who? For the people there? Not good. For a contracting British empire facing a clearly growing-in-power China it was a graceful exit without military conflict.
    • lostlogin 9mo ago
      Good point, maybe I have questions about the ‘graceful’ bit though.