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1 июл 1997 г. - Hong Kong Handed Back to China

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Since 1842, the island of Hong Kong had been under the control of the British after they took ownership of it following the First Opium War. Over the many years, much infrastructure was built on the island and surrounding areas, turning it into an international trading port. After the Second World War, many Chinese people fled to Hong Kong after the government turned communist in 1949; but due to an old lease signed by the British Empire, the 1990s meant that soon the former colony would have to be handed back over to the Republic of China.

In the years leading up to the end of this lease, the British and Chinese governments began negotiating on how this handover was to happen. During this time, over half a million people left Hong Kong, not wanting to become part of communist China. Eventually though, the territory of Hong Kong was officially transferred back to China on 1st July 1997, under the agreement that China would not change the governing or economic systems of the island for fifty years. This left Hong Kong existing as a sort of city-state whereby the city itself would have a completely different currency and set of laws to the mainland.

Although the British royal family viewed this as the end of the British Empire, Hong Kong has gone on to suffer a different sort of imperial control as the Chinese government attempt to influence the politics of Hong Kong before the allotted time.

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