BBCNEWS Dateline London June 4, 2024 02:49:00
Island without the back—up from the mainland. without that lease, it was clear that hong kong island was going to have to go back to china. so we began to negotiate. thatcher signed the joint declaration in 1985, as i remember. which was the one country, two systems principle which promised that for 50 years hong kong would stay pretty much internally as it was. thats due to run out in 2047. indeed. and the details of that were further negotiated in whats called the basic law, which is the hon...
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