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sovereignty over the whole of Hong Kong. They
wanted no argument about it. But an argument
is just what they got. They got a very hard
negotiation.
Britain could and should have argued, writes
Monckton, that the people of Hong Kong wished
to remain under the Government of Britain. If
he'd read the September 1984 White Paper he'd
know that that is precisely what we did. But,
to nobody's surprise, we could not persuade
the Chinese to abandon their right even as
we see it under the very same treaty that
created Brit
Britian's
's 99 year lease, to the return
of Hong Kong in 1997. What we did achieve, by
dogged insistence on the need to satisfy the