Please do not talk about the current events in hk.
I was listening to a geopolitical radio show when the specialist being intervened was asked why would Britain give Hong Kong to the PRC since it was a authoritarian (just coming from Mao totalitarian) state with one party. He replied that by a 1970s viewpoint the world authoritarian states were democratising and China really seemed to be going on that direction, as Portugal had the carnation revolution, the Kmt ended the martial law, the Soviet bloc was beginning to fall and the clique of four lost power in China allowing a relax on their repression.
Let's say the the British is adamant on giving HK to the real China and transfer the overseas territory to the RoC in 1997. What happens next?
I was listening to a geopolitical radio show when the specialist being intervened was asked why would Britain give Hong Kong to the PRC since it was a authoritarian (just coming from Mao totalitarian) state with one party. He replied that by a 1970s viewpoint the world authoritarian states were democratising and China really seemed to be going on that direction, as Portugal had the carnation revolution, the Kmt ended the martial law, the Soviet bloc was beginning to fall and the clique of four lost power in China allowing a relax on their repression.
Let's say the the British is adamant on giving HK to the real China and transfer the overseas territory to the RoC in 1997. What happens next?