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by magnusjonsson 2560 days ago
The PRC didn't exactly cooperate when the UK wanted to introduce democratic measures in HK well before the handover. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_development_in_Hong...
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throwaway44327 2559 days ago
The UK only tried to introduce it after they knew they couldn’t hold on to Hong Kong anymore. So they did it out of spite.

But the UK did try to convince Portugal not to offer the people of Macau citizenship, because they didn’t want to do the same for the people of Hong Kong.

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