Hong Kong: Return to China | 1997 Handover of Hong Kong

Hong Kong: Return to China | 1997 Handover of Hong Kong - Special from ABC 10

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@mrmcallum 3 жыл бұрын

I remember being home in the afternoon (in about 1984) in Hong Kong, watching live on TV Margaret Thatcher signing the document to hand over Hong Kong back to China. I used to travel to and from Hong Kong and New Zealand twice a year while at boarding school (in New Zealand). I learned a lot, while in HK and while at boarding school in New Zealand (Nelson College). I was able to travel around the world before attending boarding school. Very blessed, to have lived in Hong Kong.

@Sunset4Semaphores 2 ай бұрын

Epic reporting!

@DeAngeloStevens 2 жыл бұрын

I remember this as a Kid when I was training my Boxing Gloves, Playing the SNES, and Genesis during the Summer of '97.

@michaelswitzer2121 5 жыл бұрын

I vaguely remember this as a kid

@davidoropeza5277 5 жыл бұрын

3:02 - history is about to repeat itself

@quyenluong3705 Жыл бұрын

It did in the US Seattle

@boiscooka232 4 ай бұрын

It did in British right now 😭

@georgesahinidis7994 5 жыл бұрын

I looked into the history and there is one thing I dont understand. Why was it handed over to the mainland and not to taiwan?

@YorickReturns 5 жыл бұрын

The UK gave Communist China diplomatic recognition in 1950.

@canman5060 4 жыл бұрын

Because Taiwan was not considered a nation in those days. Mainland China was recognise as a world nation.

@reyy568 4 жыл бұрын

@@canman5060 Taiwan is a part of china also

@Bk6346 Жыл бұрын

Hong Kong is a part of Guangdong Province and the people speak Cantonese. I have relatives in both Hong Kong and China and they are closer than most foreigners believe. Hong Kong is a part of the Pearl River Delta. Don’t forget China only became communist in 1949. Why would Hong Kong be given to Taiwan when they are separated geographically by hundreds of miles?

@Cowgirls9ershater 7 ай бұрын

@@reyy568 People can have different opinions about that topic but the PRC government has absolutely no control of what is going on that island and that’s an undeniable fact

@alanwareham7391 5 жыл бұрын

Hong Kong was taken on a lease from China and Briton helped build Hong Kong from nothing turning it into one of the wealthiest places in Asia.I can remember watching the demonstrations on TV by people who wanted to rejoin China but not one wanted to be connected with the UK in any way, yet we put very few restriction on them and the people ran it almost like a free state which worked as it became a very ,very wealthy place and the way it distributed its money was left up to the people .It was even suggested that we extended the lease ,but the people of Hong Kong just didn’t want to know .

@stanleypines1026 4 ай бұрын

Not quite true. Many wanted to stay. In fact, many fled Hong Kong to come to the UK after it was confirmed that the handover was happening.

@nakazonegamestreaming896 2 ай бұрын

@@stanleypines1026 Boot lickers always existed everywhere.

@BlueSky-ub4fx 2 жыл бұрын

1940s?? I bet she meant 1840s...

@Cowgirls9ershater 7 ай бұрын

Japan took over in the 1940s during WWII

@AndysGamingThoughts 7 ай бұрын

10:00 the music is from Terminator 2.

@clatonblade2211 Жыл бұрын

with in days after, helicopters were flying back and forth day and night over my city in British Columbia and the super rich were signing realestate deals in the chopper just by pointing. they bought everything! hard to find a sign on a store front that's in english

@BeautifulVdo 4 жыл бұрын

Before 1997 British soldier where they live hongkong?

@tailsprowerfan2729 2 жыл бұрын

One of the darkest days in hong Kong history

@SirBlackReeds Жыл бұрын

And world history.

@quyenluong3705 Жыл бұрын

Darkest day was when British took it over from unequal treaty

@地球過客 3 ай бұрын

@@quyenluong3705，那天黑暗開始的一百五十幾年的英國管治，使得香港數百萬人免於慘受中共推行的多項政治運動的迫害，什么大躍進，三反五反，反右，文化大革命......等等。(我都記不清了！)一波波從大陸來港的逃亡潮，英國人管治下的黑暗，真希望它能永遠黑暗下去，不想在那明亮見到腥風血雨的政治運動及迫害！而且英國在那黑暗日子裡能把香港創造成東方之珠商貿繁華之地。如果這一百五十幾年都是中国人管治的話，香港還不繼續是名不經傳的一個荒蕪落後的小漁村嗎？

@实在哈哈 5 күн бұрын

Darkest day was imperial colonism that screwed people all around the world

@Geferulf_TAS 6 ай бұрын

To think, the whole Chinese Communist issue might have been prevented if the Western Great Powers didn't force the Unequal Treaties upon China in the 19th century. What goes around, comes around, sadly. I can only hope that as the internet allows us to connect and learn with each other, we can somehow find a way forward beyond these colonial conflicts. So much changes, yet it all stays the same :(

@Wunderpus-photogenicus Ай бұрын

It is similar to a robbery victim getting back his robbed belongings from the criminal.

@Aces77777 Жыл бұрын

The problem was it never went back to china, the ccp took it

@chrisamon80 2 жыл бұрын

Are you saying British is no longer colonized? Hong Kong belongs to China.

@jordanjohnson9866 Жыл бұрын

Nah. Not smaller than Rhode Island and more. /

@Sunset4Semaphores 2 ай бұрын

Hong Kong is epic

@liquidh5226 Ай бұрын

1:35 Wrong. In the 1840s...

@FluffyAlpaca 5 ай бұрын

Now... you gotta look back. Hong Kong is dying.

@재호김-p9j 2 жыл бұрын

Analysis about Chineses might not consist hardly. They see that is appeared in superficial history just and they are that greed overflows so :o

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