Documents recently released by the National Archives in Britain - TopicsExpress



          

Documents recently released by the National Archives in Britain suggest that beginning in the 1950s, the colonial governors who ran Hong Kong repeatedly sought to introduce popular elections but abandoned those efforts in the face of pressure by Communist Party leaders in Beijing. (The documents) reveal that Chinese leaders were so opposed to the prospect of a democratic Hong Kong that they threatened to invade should London attempt to change the status quo.
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 10:32:13 +0000

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