PC: The British Return Weihawei in Exchange For a Perpetual Lease on the New Territories?

From 1898 to 1930, the British leased the territory of Weihawei, in northeast China, at the eastern tip of Shandong, opposite Dailan and Port Arthur. However, the lease was conditional on foreign control of Port Arthur so the British never developed it the way they did with Hong Kong. In 1909, Frederick Lugard, then Governor of Hong Kong, submitted a proposal that Weihawei be returned to Chinese control immediately in exchange for a perpetual lease on Hong Kong's New Territories, but nothing came of it. Is there a reasonable possibility that this could have been accepted by the births government? Would the Chinese have agreed to it?
 
From 1898 to 1930, the British leased the territory of Weihawei, in northeast China, at the eastern tip of Shandong, opposite Dailan and Port Arthur. However, the lease was conditional on foreign control of Port Arthur so the British never developed it the way they did with Hong Kong. In 1909, Frederick Lugard, then Governor of Hong Kong, submitted a proposal that Weihawei be returned to Chinese control immediately in exchange for a perpetual lease on Hong Kong's New Territories, but nothing came of it. Is there a reasonable possibility that this could have been accepted by the births government? Would the Chinese have agreed to it?

1909 China was in a rough place so they could very well agree to it. Whether or not the communists agree with them ninety years later is debatable.
 
From my observations, about 80% of the time there's no objection to bumps. Most people here seem to be fine with bumping, even though the moderation team isn't.

Looks like you just got unlucky that someone reported the post.
I've never understood the bump.
 
I've never understood the bump.
On other forums that I use, bumping is basically a way of saying "I think this topic is interesting so will put it up to the top to let more people see it". One forum even has a "bump topic" option, where if you're the most recent poster in a thread and there have been no posts for two weeks, you can click the "bump" button to bring the thread to the top without having to make a bump post.

There's also the other form of bumping, where there's a thread that hasn't been posted in for a few months/years/decades, but someone has something to add to the discussion, so they make a normal post. The thread's age does not matter.

Both of these forms of bumping are acceptable on every forum I've used apart from AH.com.
 
But if it was interesting the bump wouldn't be necessary.
Well, maybe nobody noticed the thread the first time because there were lots of other interesting threads posted at the same time. Or because there were less people online when the thread was first posted.

The exact circumstances don't matter much– there's no harm in bumping, so why not allow it?

Of course this site's moderation team doesn't see it that way, though.
 
If it needs to be bumped why not expand the topic, provide background information that makes the topic moreninteresting to people who are not experts in the subject.
Exactly. I've done that a few times when an idea comes to mind, and then instead of starting a new thread I search to see if the same topic has recently been discussed, and then I'll add to that thread.
 
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