(05-30-2020 10:57 AM)Native Georgian Wrote:  After 1949, the UK really should’ve begun making arrangements to transfer (in 1997) Hong Kong to the authorities in Formosa, rather than the authorities in Beijing. Britain was strong enough at the time to have imposed that solution, regardless of complaints from Mao.

It is a shame what is happening now.

I’ll point out that the proposed “5G alliance” from Britain sounds similar to the Commonwealth alliance suggested from time to time by Owl on this forum.

Hong Kong depending on the "New Territories" which were not part of the perpetual lease. So that would have left Hong Kong non-viable. The British really had no choice for keeping it. Taiwan could not have held it.