What Will Happen To Hong Kong After 2047

But my point is that things change and change in unpredictable ways.
What will happen to hong kong after 2047. Few are inclined to speculate on what might be left of hong kong s autonomy by 2047. What happens on july 1 2047. Hong kong there has been a lot of talk here lately about the year 2047 50 years after the return of the special administrative region to china from the u k. Think about where china was three decades ago.
They shrank after the handover but revived in 2003 when half. A simple statement that hong kong s way of life can continue indefinitely after 2047 until otherwise agreed would sets minds at ease in hong kong and aid beijing s case for reunification with. Hong kong free press hkfp. What happens after.
It s still about three decades away. 1978 saw the opening of china via the capitalist reform. The number of mainland researchers and think tanks on hong kong affairs rises and falls in line with the city s political situation. When china regained sovereignty over hong kong from the british in 1997 it was under an agreement to allow the city a high degree of autonomy for 50 years.
One of the most widely debated questions among everyone who follows hong kong s future is what will happen after the expiry on june 30 2047 of the guarantees that beijing made in relation to the first 50 years after hong kong s reversion to chinese sovereignty on july 1 1997. As hong kong s protests took a decidedly violent turn earlier this year one of the city s top officials was preoccupied with something potentially more explosive. That arrangement known as one.