The offer to Hong Kong, as a British colony, was rather less generous (Hong Kong was never allowed to build its own army).
Hong Kong, a British colony until 1997, has a comparatively high degree of autonomy from Beijing.
This weekend, the former British colony Hong Kong officially sworn in what is essentially the president of the autonomous zone.
Hong Kong was a British colony that was the spoils of its military victory in the Opium Wars of the mid-1800s.
Most experts and media say she left a controversial mixed legacy in terms of economic reform, but praise her for negotiating the smooth handover of former British colony Hong Kong to China and facilitating China's reintegration with the international community.
The classic charter city model was (and still is, refigured) the crown colony of Hong Kong.
The brigade was stationed in Hong Kong until the former British colony was given back to China in 1997.
The loosening of restrictions on trading yuan started in Hong Kong, a former British colony under Chinese sovereignty but with its own legal and financial systems.
The skepticism is not limited to Hong Kong, a former British colony that's now a special administrative region of China with its own legal system and currency.
With the Falklands conflict behind her, she travelled to China in September 1982 to open talks on another delicate sovereignty issue: the future of Hong Kong, a British Crown Colony.
He inherited the party's long-standing policy of encouraging Taiwan to return to what it calls the Chinese family, joining the two other prodigals, Hong Kong and the former Portuguese colony of Macau.
As for Mr Lai, he has been trying to list his publishing group on the Hong Kong stockmarket, and one reason why the colony's investment bankers will have nothing to do with him is that they are worried that they too might end up losing lucrative Chinese business.
By then Hong Kong had spent some 140 years as a British colony without enjoying the right to choose its own leaders.
Then, last weekend, Hong Kong's own government turned to Beijing to get the former British colony's highest court overruled.
One reason for this is that Hong Kong's currency-board system (see article) is forcing the former colony to confront its past financial excesses swiftly.
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