SHAME-FREE thread: ask the dumbest question you have about the Hong Kong protests. I'll try to answer it or loop in a real Hong Konger to answer it for you. No question too ignorant or basic.
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Well to be fair, the reason they never gave self rule and democratic elections. Is because China apposite any thing close to it and always threaten to take back hong kong by force if they did. So HK Gov was always walking a tightrope of keeping China and Hong Kong happy was...
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Wow, did they really? Never realized they had as much leverage over Brits. I'd love to read more on the topic of you have any pointers
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...easy feat. Not to mention UK business interests in HK to look after for. So the status quo seem to be the better option for the UK. As for the right of abode to the UK. After Brexit do you really need to still figure out why? Simple 7 million Hong Kongers are not there people.
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Records declassified in recent years have shown that the British had been considering self-rule for Hong Kong since 1958, but had to pull back due to the threat of invasion by the Communist Party. https://qz.com/279013/the-secret-history-of-hong-kongs-stillborn-democracy/ …
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and yet some mainland wumao keep saying "do you have democracy when you are under colonial British rule"


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