Because Hong Kong was a lease arrangement between Britain and China, and was never a sovereign country. The lease was always going to run out.
Ukraine on the other hand has been a sovereign country for over 30 years. And naked aggression against it is against it is an attack on the sovereignty of all nations.
yes, I was thinking something similar, that Hong Kong was leased territory, and historically had been part of China, and didn’t have a history of being an independent country.
There is a lot of pro-Ukraine sentiment in Hong Kong. They understand what is happening in those Russian occupied areas of the Ukraine. Today, in Hong Kong, saying the phrase, “Restore Hong Kong” can get one arrested and sent to the camps. The Russians replace the Ukrainian teachers and administrators with their own people. It is the same in Hong Kong.
“Because Hong Kong was a lease arrangement between Britain and China, and was never a sovereign country. The lease was always going to run out.”
No. This is misinformation that a lot of people think.
Hong Kong was ceded in perpetuity to the UK.
Kowloon also.
New Territories was leased by the Qing to the UK, which is what people usually refer to when they erroneously say Hong Kong was leased.
People’s Republic of China did not lease it, nor did they maintain the lease or even have the lease documents.
That was not the legal basis for the “handover.”
The Sino-British Joint Declaration, the treaty, did not even mention the lease of New Territories.