Posted on 07/31/2019 4:47:04 AM PDT by cba123
So was 1900 in the 20th century or the 19th century?
I admit I’ve never formally looked it up. I do remember from my obviously poor WV K-12 education that 1900 was the beginning of the 20th century. So you’re telling me Mrs Shank was wrong? Say it ain’t so!
Hong Kong consists of three separate areas, historically:
- Hong Kong Island, the smallest of the three which China originally ceded to Great Britain in perpetuity in settlement of Britain defeating China in the first Opium War (ensuring Brits could continue pushing opium at a great profit to the Chinese addicts - at a time when such drug sales kruse in the UK was a capital offense)
- Kowloon is the next territory which was under a 99 year lease that ended June 30, 1997
- New Territitories which is north of Kowloon and borders mainland China, and which was also under lease ending in 1997. China would never have renewed those leases, and an isolated Hong Kong Island would have been a disaster on its own, and the immediate conversion of Kowloon and New Territories would have been a disaster for all. Margaret Thatcher took the best deal she could get for the people of Hong Kong, with a 50 year deal with China.
I’ve heard troops have built up on the outskirts.
“Oh I’ve never been to England, but I kinda like The Beatles...”
Well, I've never been to Spain
But I kinda like the music
Say the ladies are insane there
And they sure know how to use it
They don't abuse it
Never gonna lose it
I can't refuse it
It drives The Chinese Communist Party nuts ,LOL
We use the decimal system (tens). Decades and centuries begin at one(1) and end at zero (0). It was chaos around here at the end of the 20th. Too bad the FR search engine sucks..
"All of the Balkans asia, europe, africa, stans, midde east are not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier US soldier." - Reichskanzler Otto von Bismarck.Is there anybody anywhere arguing that we should use US soldiers?
The new millennia did not start until 1/1/2001.
Mrs. Shank was wrong and 1900 is still in the 19th century.
Ok fine with me!
Yeah, lots of folks got it wrong during the rollover back in Y2K. There was no year 0. Year 1 starts each century. This is one of the reason A.C. Clarke's "2001 A Space Odyssey" had the name it was given.
I was there, briefly, in 1976.
Fascinating place!
China is between a rock and a hard place. They cannot allow open rebellion, but cracking down, especially now with their trade confrontation with the USA and their efforts to turn the South China Sea into their own private pond, complete with push-back from Vietnam.
“May you live in interesting times!”
BTW, the man with the two shopping bags in front of the tank in Tienanmen Square is one of my heroes. Sadly, that probably did not end well for him.
“The Brits sealed the fate of Hong Kong at the end of the nineteenth century. It is a Chinese matter and there’s no good reason for the USA to have any involvement in protests there.”
There are a number of “Freepers” who keep writing the same thing as this faker - almost word for word.
VietVet4444 is rather obviously a netagandist.
Perhaps indicating a sort of consensus.
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