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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: GST who wrote (146183)9/22/2004 3:16:44 PM
From: kodiak_bull  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
GST,

Technical matters:

Hong Kong was a crown colony, owned by the British in perpetuity (ceded to GB in the 1842 Treaty of Nanking), and expanded to include Kowloon in 1860 under a "perpetual lease" in the Convention of Beijing. However, "New Territories" north of Kowloon peninsula were the subject of a 99-year lease in 1898 primarily for defense purposes. Later, as the population grew it became clear that 6 million people could not exist without the water, etc. from the new territories, and the political world had changed, the entire thing was ceded back to China in July 1997.
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