It seems counter intuitive to their respective economic interests to hand them over to the CCP government.
They didn't own the place. They were just kinda renting it.
When someone forces you to sign a contract they drafted while they're pointing a gun to your head, it becomes difficult to distinguish the difference between renting or strong armed robbery. Even more so, when the burglar utilizing less than ten percent of that lands productive potential and capability, massively develops the territory, and elevates the quality of life of the people who choose to reside there.
It's like if a criminal stole your old b&w dial knob UHF/VHF tv and forced you to take a plasma tv with full cable tv/internet service provided at gun point. Part of you will always be pissed that he took your old tv, but another part of you is resigned to begrudgingly accept that he did it to give you an insanely better one, and you're eternally baffled as to why he had to put the gun in your face at all, if that was the plan from the start.
The British didn't provide labour to build HK, they provided a less oppressive regime than the mainland (not too hard). It was the Chinese doing the building and they were taxed every step of the way. The CCP is just more of a control freak, like a crazy ex.
The CCP is just more of a control freak, like a crazy ex.
lol that's pretty accurate.
Are you @AOU's alt account?
Opium is helluva drug.
As is any Euphoriant, but as we've seen with drug addition and trafficking in western nations, only hopelessly depressed people consume it and only the elites profit from its sale. Destructive as the Portuguese and British were in producing Heroine for the Asian market, tens of thousands were already consuming Opium despite the culture being fully aware of the risks in its use for several centuries. This suggests that there were already internally organized efforts to destroy Imperial Chinese society which were profiting from the opium/heroine trade.
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