Oh for crying out loud....
The expiration of the 99 year lease (and the honoring of the terms by both sides) is the whole reason the talks took place! It says it right in the blasted Wikipedia article:
“The background of the Sino–British Joint Declaration was the pending expiration of the lease of the New Territories on 1 July 1997...”
Are you really this slow?
“ChiComs did use it as a pretext to threaten Hong Kong (as you spoke if positively)”
Once more in English....and maybe with fewer bong hits?
“The expiration of the 99 year lease (and the honoring of the terms by both sides) is the whole reason the talks took place! It says it right in the blasted Wikipedia article:”
Not really, but you are weaseling out of what you said and trying to change the subject from what you claimed which was the handover was to honor the lease.