Status Updates From 香港簡史——從殖民地至特別行政區

Tiananmen Square "sent the whole colony into mourning." People watched on TV, shocked, disgusted, and horrified. Almost one million people-many of them dressed in the traditional Chinese mourning colors of black and white, marched in the streets to support the fallen demonstrators. The cenotaph was covered with flowers and black flags. Many people donated blood.’ Must have been horrific watching across the border.

‘Considering that the one country, two systems model was originally designed for Taiwan, ensuring a smooth reversion is also crucial for reunification with Taiwan: a failed reversion would hurt both economic relations with Taiwan and lead to stronger demands for independence there.’ And now we’ve got military exercises going on - great job - brutalising your own people for protesting alienates others? Who knew

‘China could have recovered Hong Kong much earlier if it wanted to - in 1949 when people’s revolution army troops stopped at the Hong Kong border…’ - it’s so irritating when historians are disingenuous like this - Chinese guards took over the border posts, that’s a small number of basically glorified policemen - that’s not an invading army pausing.