2007-11-03 09:42:03 · 12 answers · asked by Brian G 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Is the country just "coming of age" or has it used the the former colony's tremendous wealth to finance building of factories and infrastructure?
2007-11-03 09:58:24 · update #1
China was well on its way to becoming a major world player prior to taking back HK.
Peace
Jim
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2007-11-03 14:41:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hong Kong voters had mixed thoughts, some are happy, some the place unhappy to the component that a million million human beings emigrated between 1984-1997 some 15% of immediately's inhabitants. to function extra to DL, the British government additionally realised that the P.R.C perspectives British national passports as a trip checklist and that ethnic chinese language Hong Kongers are regard as chinese language voters under %regulation. He additionally fails to point out that persons from Hong Kong, to boot from different colonies of the united kingdom, had lost the computerized suitable to stay interior the united kingdom in 1962, and the talks and acts interior the Eighteen Eighties would not substitute this. that's lots an identical because of the fact the P.R of China would not legally view twin nationality and would not enable foreign places born chinese language migrant to the P.R of China in the event that they are.
2016-10-14 22:07:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has nothing to do with the 1997 takeover. Hong Kong has been a large financier of Chinese capital growth for the last four decades.
2007-11-03 10:01:19 · answer #3 · answered by Biggg 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Certainly retaking Hong Kong helped that, with it's westernized business system, but China has been modernizing it's maufacturing and it's economic system for the past 20 years.
2007-11-03 09:46:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is more related to the deals between Clinton/Gore and China in the 1990s, policies continued by Bush. The bottom line was, our politicians and big corporations were selling us the US citizen down the river .. Traitorous.
2007-11-03 09:46:41 · answer #5 · answered by niddlie diddle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Britain had hong kong on a lease,But it ran out so china took it back.
2007-11-03 09:45:53 · answer #6 · answered by taxed till i die,and then some. 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
None. It is all related to a change in policy of the government, which went from pure communist to free enterprise.
2007-11-03 09:45:31 · answer #7 · answered by regerugged 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
is it?
I just think China is smarter than we think.
I also think she is becoming a world leader and that she doesn't give a ratz behind about the US....at all.
2007-11-03 09:45:04 · answer #8 · answered by rare2findd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not much. It has facilitated the flow of capital somewhat, but it would have happened anyway.
2007-11-03 09:44:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's not...Britain's lease just ran out
2007-11-03 09:44:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋