• CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Being effectively conquered twice before being made to scede some of their land for a century while a foreign power floods the country with drugs?

    • Apollo@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I think he meant lying when signing the handover treaty and not giving Hong Kongers the rights they agreed to for the time they agreed to.

      • ours@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Exactly this. Otherwise, nobody should expect me to defend the British Empire of all things.

        For all the bad things they did, at least they left HK as a democracy including some freedom of the press and expression.