What Happened In Hong Kong

Hong kong an international finance hub on china s southern coast was a british colony until 1997 when it was handed back to china under a policy known as one country two systems the.
What happened in hong kong. It is a story of a global city with all the challenges that brings in the early 21st century. It was a british colony for more than 150 years part of it hong kong island was ceded to the uk after a war in 1842. The ongoing 2019 20 hong kong protests were triggered by the introduction of the fugitive offenders amendment bill by the hong kong government. The transfer of sovereignty over hong kong commonly known as the handover of hong kong or simply the handover also the return in mainland china occurred at midnight at the start of 1 july 1997 when the united kingdom ended administration for the colony of hong kong and returned control of the territory to china.
Hong kong s story is therefore not just about its relationship with its post 1997 sovereign power. Hong kong became a special administrative region and continues to maintain. April 3 hong kong leader carrie lam s government introduces amendments to hong kong s extradition laws that would allow criminal suspects to be sent to mainland china for trial. That arrangement known as one.
If enacted the bill would have allowed extradition to jurisdictions with which hong kong does not currently have extradition agreements including mainland china and taiwan. Authored by brandon turbeville via the organic prepper blog over the past few months both mainstream and alternative news outlets have been covering massive protests in hong kong where tens of thousands of people have taken part in demonstrations that have since devolved into violence both with police counter. What happened in hong kong.