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Now, almost 50 years to the day since divesting itself of its Indian Empire, the British will hand over control of Hong Kong, the last major possession of the British crown. It's not just the end of an era for Hong Kong. It's the end of an era for Asia and Europe.
ince 1841, Hong Kong, on the south coast of China, has been a British colony. At the end of June 1997 it is to be handed back to China. Its 6.2 million people will cease to be British subjects and overnight will become citizens of the communist People's Republic of China. The 4,000 British troops presently stationed there will be replaced by 15,000 troops of the PLA (People's Liberation Army). Some 10,000 of those troops are to symbolically march from the Chinese border through the streets of the colony on July 1, 1997, the very day the territory reverts to China.
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