"Hong Kong is Chinese Territory "2
The British imperialist radio stations and newspapers in Hong Kong have recently been frenziedly babbling that Hong Kong is "British territory", that members of people's communes in Kwangtung Province [have been] "encroa ing upon" [what is] "British territory" when they went to farm their land in the "New Territories", and that the Chinese people were "interfering with the domes- tic affairs of Hong Kong" when they support their fellow countrymen there in their struggle against British atrocities. This is nothing but gangsters' language; it is a grave provocation against the Chinese people.
Hong Kong has been Chinse territory since ancient times. This is a fact known to all, old and young, in the world. More than a century ago, British imperialism came to China by pirate ships, provoked the criminal "opium war", massacred numerous Chinese people, and occupied the Chinese territory of Hong Kong. Later it snapped [up] the Chinese territory of Kowloon and the Chinese territory of the "New Territories". This is an enormous blood debt British imperialism owes to the Chinese people. Sooner or later, the Chinese people will make a thorough-going liquidation of this debt with British imperialism.
Because Hong Kong has always been Chinese territory and was occupied by the British imperialists, the peasants of Kwangtung Province living near the "New Territories" have for generations tilled the land there. Now the British imperial- ists have gone so far as to call this an "encroachment upon British territory." This is absolutely preposterous! Have members of our people's communes gone to till the land on the British Isles? They have not taken a step out of their own country. On the contrary, it is the British imperialists who have come from thousands of miles away to seize our land by force and kill our compatriots. We must tell the British imperialists that not only have the Chinese peasants the right to till the land in the "New Territories", but the whole of Hong Kong must return to the domain of the motherland.
This is not the old era when the British colonialists seized Hong Kong by force. Our compatriots in Hong Kong have the powerful backing of their strong social- ist motherland. How can it be imagined that Hong Kong will always be under the rule of British imperialism? Of course it can't; it is absolutely unthinkable. It is idiotic wishful thinking for the British imperialists to imagine that they can prevent the great Chinese people from assisting their Hong Kong compatriots' fight against British violence. Hong Kong is an inalienable part of Chinese terri- tory, and our compatriots in Hong Kong are blood brothers and sisters of the Chinese people. The Chinese people cannot possibly turn a deaf ear to the British imperialists' fascist atrocities of barbarously suppressing our countrymen in Hong Kong.
Today the fate of Hong Kong is in the hands of the Chinese people and our countrymen in Hong Kong. Hong Kong's affairs must be decided by the Chinese people and our countrymen in Hong Kong. It is absolutely impermissible for British imperialism to ride roughshod over Hong Kong!
"Letter dated 8 March 1972 from the Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations addressed to the Chairman of the Special Committee [of 24]
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In connection with the questions of Hong Kong and Macau, I have the honour to state the following:
As is known to all, the questions of Hong Kong and Macau belong to the
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