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The real significance of Hong Kong

The Hong Kong handover is being interpreted in at least two ways. One says that, although the Union Jack came down, the British can still hold their heads high. After all, the stunning display of ceremonial pageantry was never better, and the 150-year rule from London produced one of the most productive and successful island societies on earth. This positive assessment was by far the majority view.

But then veteran journalist and British historian Paul Johnson took aim and fired. A Daily Mail editorial published his stinging national rebuke: “The surrender of the free colony of Hong Kong to the totalitarian Communist government–euphemistically termed a ‘handover’–is one of the most humiliating episodes in British history.” At no time before has Britain handed a colony over to a communist state.

 

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