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Britain and All Western Countries Should Support Hong Kong’s Struggle to Escape Chinese Oppression
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Britain and All Western Countries Should Support Hong Kong’s Struggle to Escape Chinese Oppression

Supporting the Fight for Freedom Against Authoritarianism

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Thomas Walker-Werth
Jun 26, 2020
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When the United Kingdom handed back control of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China in 1997, both governments agreed that Hong Kong would remain administratively separate from mainland China, allowing it to maintain the kind of free society that is not possible under the communist Chinese system. The Sino-British Joint Declaration guaranteed Hong…

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