all this talk about 99-year lease was stupid.
Britain should invade and take the place back.
Let the Chinese wail and cry, they have enough ghost cities they can fill.
Let the peeple of Hong Kong decide their own future.

good old days when the world made sense, Africa was a place where you made Stewart Granger and Clark Gable movies, HK was British, are gone forever, I fear..

Never mind the rational arguments. Hong Kong should be British again.
Next, the Spaniards will want Gibraltar back.
Cuba will want Guantanamo.
No way that is going to happen!

Have you even been there? I visited before and after, and since the Chinese
have take over, it's bloomed. It appears that Beijing played it smart. Rather than kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, they've left it alone and gave it better feed.

Yes, very smart of the Chinese to re neg on thier promise of Hong Kong keeping its democratic system and installing thier un elected party official to look after things....no one saw that coming. How lucky the people of Hong Kong are to have thier democracy removed and thier human rights nullified.

Exactly what I was thinking. Hong Kong hasn't bloomed at all.

The Brits should have told the Chinese that the lease was to be extended for another 999 years.
What could the Chinese do about it?

I think Hawaii and Alaska should get independence from USA, Hawaii is a vacation destination and can survive on its own. While Alaska has its oil and gas resources to maintain its self, plus you yanks have oil/gas in your own country as well as stealing it from Syria/Iraq via Daesh and Khazars.

Britain doesn't need it anymore, as it serves no purpose. So give it back to Spain but allow them to carry on having a military base there, since Spain like Republic of Ireland have no real combat military since the end of the Spanish Civil War.

Chinese doing a great job after 18 years, plus Hong Kong is another Taiwan and its lax compared to Mainland.

Lava you ever thought of CYPRUS? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqvIkOtEexg

Whats your opinion of Canary Islands and Morocco's claim?

invade, basically.

What could the British have done about that?

Unless they could come up with another 5 million Ghurkas in a big hurry...F-all..

Would not exactly be the same Field problem as Aholing a few thousand half-trained Argentine conscripts off the Falklands, would it.

No disrespect intended re the Falklands war, but that's what the land opposition basically was, wasn't it?

yeah, because the heroic and loyal Gurka, who has to beg the silly Brits on his hands and knees to become a true Brit stainer, is the only pseudo Brit with a bit of decent fight in him. Meanwhile any fuck stained tyrant dictator criminal or undocumented coon can become a Brit. It makes me laugh to think of the silly disgusting child molesting Brits defending Hong Kong from a Chinese military takeover.

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precisely...the Gurka chapter, what was done to them, they who would have been about the most valuable and honest/decent immigrants UK has ever had, was a bloody disgrace.

Oh, the army here in Australia wanted to offer them a home too, probably half of them would have gone straight into our army, already trained and experienced troops...but no, same story.

You know who was opposing it in both cases, too, don't you.

fkn Left. Would prefer some worthless trouble-making Islamist from North Africa or the middle-east or some chimp from Sudan or Nigeria.

The Gorkhas are Hindus, not Muslims, so the British in general don't care about them.

No oil money, no campaign finance contributions from Emirati and Saudi Sheiks, no lobby => British Left doesn't give 2 shits

Britain has become a decadent and apathetic cesspool.

why do we have to have any of them? isn't it morally wrong to rob a developing nation of its professional classes, and an act of sleight of hand to represent it as some sort of national victory? China, by comparison has shown itself to be trustworthy.

I have not been there, or China, and I never will, because I do not do Asian or SE asian hellholes, only place in all of east fkn Asia I would contemplate would be Japan, but, having said that, everyone from HeRe who does go to HK and China, raves about the modernity...how fkn brilliant the public transport is, state of the art, all of that.

Noone seems to come back and say, "fucku me, what a Shythole.."

meanwhile take a look about any British city and marvel and the bestial display afforded.

No one wants you within 1,000 miles of Japan. Stay in your shit hole.

I remember the ceremony transferring sovereignty. The British soldiers had those funny things on their hats. The PLA rolled across the border before midnight. Chuck took off on his yacht, the Britannia. It feels like it was only yesterday.

LOL invade with what?

What do you mean, invade with what???

invade with about x-million PLA troops..

Would have over-run and occupied HK in about an hour, I'd have assumed, same as Soviets would have done same to west Berlin if it ever came to it..

Actually, West Berlin might have been harder for the Soviets than HK would have been for PLA..

the Soviets would at least have had to fear retribution..

OH I'm confused -- I thought you meant the Brits should invade Hong Kong.....yea -- the PLA would kick their ass....

...and never even claimed that it was theirs, I don't see where you're going with this,

No, they are better off under the Chinese. The UK will adopt sharia law any day now.

The IRA should start being active again.

The IRA and the SAS. Attack the Chinese mainland, lop off a few heads, take pictures and call it the Boxer Rebellion 2.0.

I just want to ask your pro-British folk would have been up in arms against the US if they had reneged on the Panama Canal Treaty?