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These were more than just pretexts.
Thus a) was a
fundamental point of international relations and b) it
was true that Kowloon was a pirate haunt (it still is
today in the camera shops).
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The 'Arrow' Incident is described from the
British point of view briefly in G.R. Sayer, Hong Kong 1841-62 p.177-78.
Page 8 and following
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New Territories
He admits that a wholesale incursion was
made upon China (Japanese, German, American) hence imperialism rampant a characteristic of c.1898. The threat to dismember China was very real - from many quarters. The final page is important, especially the last paragraph.
1. The population point is hopelessly wrong.
It just GREW! The figures are 1841 - 5,500, 1861 124,198 etc.
2.
The view of the riots in the twenties is
dubious.
3.
The war years are pure distortion.
4.
Not a word here about the 1967 riots when
in Hong Kong 'Mercedes communists' were rejected, and when Beijing told the local opportunists to 'cool it'.
5. Chinese sovereignty over H.K. is emphatically
not the "wish" of Hong Kong people. See Reform Club poll (1982).
The traffic in people from PRC -
is all one-way!
/Concluding
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