{"id":23464,"date":"2021-10-29T10:24:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T10:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/29\/why-did-britain-handover-hong-kong-to-china-short-animated-documentary\/"},"modified":"2021-10-29T10:24:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T10:24:32","slug":"why-did-britain-handover-hong-kong-to-china-short-animated-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/29\/why-did-britain-handover-hong-kong-to-china-short-animated-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Britain Handover Hong Kong to China? (Short Animated Documentary)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter:<br \/>\nPatreon:<br \/>\nMerch: <\/p>\n<p>Special Thanks to the following Patrons for their support on Patreon:<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Sanders<br \/>\nChris Fatta<br \/>\nDaniel Lambert<br \/>\nRichard Wolfe<br \/>\nJoshua<br \/>\nTom Loghrin<br \/>\nWarren Rudkin<br \/>\nAndrew Niedbala<br \/>\nMitchell Wildoer<br \/>\nBlaine Tillack<br \/>\nBernardo Santos<br \/>\nMatthew<br \/>\nJohn Garcia<br \/>\nRichard Hartzell<br \/>\nWill Davis-Coleman<br \/>\nDanny Anstess<br \/>\nHenry Rabung<br \/>\nAugust Block<br \/>\nPerry Gagne<br \/>\nShaun Pullin<br \/>\nJoooooshhhhh<br \/>\nVesko Dinev<br \/>\nPaulToon<br \/>\nKelly Moneymaker<br \/>\nFuzzytheFair<br \/>\nArmani_Banani<br \/>\nJeffrey Schneider<br \/>\nByzans_Scotorius<br \/>\nSeth Reeves<br \/>\nHaydn Noble<br \/>\nJosh Cornelius<br \/>\nGideon Rashkes<br \/>\nSpencer Smith<br \/>\nCornel Borin\u0103<br \/>\nRoberto<br \/>\nAndrew Keeling<br \/>\nRichard Manklow<br \/>\nChance Cansler<br \/>\nJo\u00e3o Santos<br \/>\nGabriel Lunde<br \/>\nPierre Le Mouel<br \/>\nanon<\/p>\n<p>Why did Britain give Hong Kong back to China? TL:DW &#8211; It&#8217;s because they didn&#8217;t have a choice. What were they going to do? Fight?<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<p>A Reward for Good Behaviour in the Cold War: Bargaining over the Defence of Hong Kong, 1949-1957 by Chi-Kwan Mark<\/p>\n<p>Lack of Means or Loss of Will? The United Kingdom and the Decolonization of Hong Kong, 1957-1967 by Chi-Kwan Mark<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong: The Critical Phase, 1945-1949 by W. Roger Louis<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l7UxedFC9zs\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter: Patreon: Merch: Special Thanks to the following Patrons for their support on Patreon: Kevin Sanders Chris Fatta Daniel Lambert Richard Wolfe Joshua Tom Loghrin Warren Rudkin Andrew Niedbala Mitchell Wildoer Blaine Tillack Bernardo Santos Matthew John Garcia Richard Hartzell Will Davis-Coleman Danny Anstess Henry Rabung August Block Perry Gagne Shaun Pullin Joooooshhhhh Vesko Dinev [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[66471,6400,66472,7508,83,66475,1210,3535,2811,12154,1558,12155,66476,7854,34376,66477,2975,7511,66473,25599,66474],"class_list":["post-23464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european","tag-66471","tag-animated","tag-blair","tag-britain","tag-china","tag-deng","tag-documentary","tag-handover","tag-history","tag-hong","tag-hong-kong","tag-kong","tag-kowloon","tag-matters","tag-negotiations","tag-opium","tag-return","tag-short","tag-thatcher","tag-why","tag-xiaoping","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}