‘Biggest Mistake of the Century’ — Britain’s Hong Kong Handover 25 Years Ago to Beijing Marked the ‘Beginning of the End’. Really!

What a stupid article by Breitbart news! I am afraid, there might be others thinking in similar ways.

The British only honored an international agreement between China and the UK about a 100 lease of 1898 of the territory. Whether then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher could have negotiated a better Sino-British Joint Declaration in 1984 is another question. In hindsight, it would probably have been better for the UK to wait a few more years before negotiating a deal.

That the Communist Party of China would select a dictator and hegemon like Xi Jinping twice to be the party leader in violation of Deng Xiaoping's reforms was most likely unforeseeable at the time of handover.

25 Years: Britain's Hong Kong Handover Marked 'Beginning of the End' Marking the “beginning of the end”, 25 years ago Britain’s Union Jack flag was lowered at the Government House in Central Hong Kong for the final time, replaced with the yellow and red of the Chinese Communist regime in Beijing.