The British Hong Kong .

One observer summed up the decades as "politics, propaganda, panic, rumour, riot, revolution and refugees". The role of Hong Kong as a political safe haven for Chinese political refugees further cemented its status, and few serious attempts to revert its ownership were launched in the early 1900s. Both Chinese Communist and Nationalist agitators found refuge in the territory, when they did not actively participate in the turmoil in China. However, the dockworkers strikes in the 1920s and 1930s were widely attributed to the Communists by the authorities, and caused a backlash against them. A strike in 1920 was ended with a wage increase of HKD 32 cents.
Ambrose King, in his controversial 1975 paper Administrative Absorption of Politics in Hong Kong, described the colonial Hong Kong's administration as "elite consensual government". In it, he claimed, any coalition of elites or forces capable of challenging the legitimacy of Hong Kong's administrative structure would be co-opted by the existing apparatus through the appointment of leading political activists, business figures and other elites to oversight committees, by granting them British honours, and by bringing them into elite institutions like Hong Kong's horse racing clubs. He called this "synarchy", an extension of John K. Fairbank's use of the word to describe the mechanisms of government under the late Qing dynasty in China.

When modern China began after the fall of the last dynasty, one of the first political statements made in Hong Kong was the immediate change from long queue hairstyles to short haircuts.In 1938, Guangzhou fell to the hands of the Japanese, Hong Kong was considered a strategic military outpost for all trades in the far east. Though Winston Churchill assured that Hong Kong was an "impregnable fortress", it was taken as a reality check response since the British Army actually stretched too thin to battle on two fronts

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[QWERTYUIOP12321234]

this post should post and link in forum hkgolden com although those Cantonese speaking don't understand English but love England , it make upper class HKSAR communist government so angry , however the surprise is only mainland mandarin CCP party go hk conton road buy English letter characteristics like LV,GUCCI,Diro,Rolex and NEVER buy the product ' make in chine 中國製造 or 中国製造 Zhōngguó Zhìzào '

[matheona]

@QWERTYUIOP12321234 Well I will remember.and thanks for your comment Yours matheona

[matheona]

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[chanmanbar]

what's the background music?

[matthewlo55]

@Jeremyho439 甚麼解放香港，多謝共產黨？那是侵略！沒有英國就沒有今天的香港­！當然也沒有你的句子！God save the queen and make her enemy fall ,知不知enemy是指誰？就是你尊敬的共產黨，Jeremyh­o439 先生。贈你一句，天佑女王，天滅共黨！

[matthewlo55]

@Jeremyho439 你搞乜差嘢多謝共產黨解放香港？那是侵略香港！沒有英國，就沒有­今天的香港！當然你的句子也不會出現。God save the Queen and make her enemy fall . 知不知enemy是誰？就是你最喜愛的共產黨呀！親愛的Jere­myho439 先生。天佑女王，天滅共產黨！！

[Jeremyho439]

党等了一百五十年解放了香港生活在水深火熱的同袍！

感謝黨。

[ric66521]

I miss British Hong Kong and I fuck HKSAR

[Thraikios]

what's the background music? thanks!

[DavBlc7]

Are you aware that news of the riots here in Britain will boost chance of HK pro-Beijing parties to gain more members.

It may also help pro-Beijing parties to win election next year. Chinese will says to HK people - "British is bad now and China will help you now!"

Is British very bad?

[MrKaisaq]

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