“UK bastards caused this. Thatcher’s biggest mistake.”
I guess they could have nuked China, but short of that, it’s hard to see how they could have projected the force necessary to protect Hong Kong, when they could barely defeat Argentina in the Falklands a decade earlier.
If you want to blame anyone BLAME NIXON for going there and setting the stage to putting them on the road to becoming a superpower.
“BLAME NIXON for going there and setting the stage to putting them on the road to becoming a superpower.”
PRC were in no way a superpower when Thatcher acquiesced to ChiCom demands.
But, yes. Nixon and Kissinger are to blame. Their culpability goes way beyond Hong Kong.