Posted on 05/21/2020 8:16:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
What, you are suggesting the 100-year lease was not a lease?
Red China is a virus that infects anything it is close to.
“What, you are suggesting the 100-year lease was not a lease?”
Only one part of Hong Kong was leased and the PRC did not hold the lease and the turnover was not based on the lease expiring.
The ChiComs did not and do not even recognize the lease.
I posted this in 140. And it was a 99 year lease, by the way.
Hong Hong is made up of three areas. Hong Kong. Kowloon. New Territories.
Hong Kong and Kowloon were ceded in perpetuity. New Territories had the lease.
The lease was not with the People’s Republic of China but was made 50 years before that country ever existed.
The Basic Agreement that is an international treaty registered in the UN is the basis for the turnover from UK to PRC. There was at least one other government between the time of the lease and founding of PRC. The PRC did not hold the lease.
The Basic Agreement says nothing about the lease. It is not even mentioned and is not the basis for the treaty.
Comon man! listen jack, these guys are a nice bunch of guys
Honestly this was inevitable. Anybody that’s in Hong Kong and loves freedom should have left a long time ago. China was ALWAYS going to take over fully. I’m surprised it lasted this long, I thought 5 years, 10 tops.
Correct, I guess it was 99-year. Either way, UK ceded it all back in 1997 and left. They did not give or allow residents to take U.K. citizenship and go to U.K. They abandoned it all, returning it to China. I was there in 1997 and was surprised that the common attitude was to welcome the move.
“They abandoned it all,”
Yes, but you are changing things. You said it had to be done due to a lease expiring which was not true.
“.. returning it to China.”
This is also a false statement.
They returned nothing to the PRC.
Return is a misnomer and false statement.
You appear confused. All of these lands were and are Chinese. The folks their might fly an American flag but are not now, have never been, and hopefully will never be American citizens. Nor are they now or at any time in the past UK citizens. No, the are Chinese citizens, the territories or lands or whatever are Chinese. Deal with it.
Truly you have made the most ignorant anti-American post I may have ever seen here.
You would have us squatting illegally on Indian land if we followed your logic.
Or eternally enslaved by a foreign regent.
My concern is that Hong Kong is no business of ours And that there is no simple way to be involved. What are we going to do, send the military in? Or, as some have said, invite those Chinese in Hong Kong that want to come to America, to come here? Is whatever happens to Hong Kong a national security threat to the United States? No, absolutely no. Send your money over, if you want, leave our taxpayer money, and our American blood, here.
Let me offer my condolences on the death of your mother.
My mother? What are you talking about? I presume you have me mixed up with someone else, or you’re coming here belong in another thread?
Now that would be a tragedy. Prayers for the people of Hong Kong.
Made me blink; too.
The UK did not want to risk a war with the PRC in 1999. A war which would have destroyed HK anyway.
I remember the takeover day, all the celebrating getting rid of the British, Jackie Chan praised the Chicoms...if they’d only known what a disaster was coming!
Man, this is heart breaking.
I have watched an endless number of videos and live streams of the people of Hong Kong doing their best to protest and fight back.
They really have a tremendous amount of guts. I just wish these people were armed.
They’d fight like maniacs even if the end result were already determined.
Armed up.
China gets away with this. They picked a good time. The world is more interested in CV-19 and China has bought a lot of people all over the world.
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