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Hong Kong wasn't handed back to China until 1997. If I remember correctly, the New Territories were given to Britain on a 99 year lease, while Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula were given to the UK permanently after the Opium Wars. What if Britain decided to return only the New Territories, and not Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. Thatcher also tried to extend the lease during negotiations with China in the 1980s. What if she had succeeded?
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