Please don't take offense, I am genuinely curious about this – my question is: Hong Kong was ceded over to the British due to China losing the Opium War and being forced to sign the Treaty of Nanking. To summarize, the Opium War was started because the British started smuggling opium into China to make up for trade deficits and China retaliated by destroying all the opium, which essentially sparked the war.
Now, China is slowly reclaiming Hong Kong, which was always a part of China before the British basically took it away in a giant dick move. However, why don't the HKers feel like they are being rightfully made part of China again? Why don't they feel like the British were the bad guys who caused the rift between China and HK? Am not a Mainland Chinese citizen btw, just confused why there isn't any happiness/nationalistic pride at the prospect of HK rejoining China as one country, as they were before the Opium War happened. Thank you!
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Please don't take offense, I am genuinely curious about this – my question is: Hong Kong was ceded over to the British due to China losing the Opium War and being forced to sign the Treaty of Nanking. To summarize, the Opium War was started because the British started smuggling opium into China to make up for trade deficits and China retaliated by destroying all the opium, which essentially sparked the war.
Now, China is slowly reclaiming Hong Kong, which was always a part of China before the British basically took it away in a giant dick move. However, why don't the HKers feel like they are being rightfully made part of China again? Why don't they feel like the British were the bad guys who caused the rift between China and HK? Am not a Mainland Chinese citizen btw, just confused why there isn't any happiness/nationalistic pride at the prospect of HK rejoining China as one country, as they were before the Opium War happened. Thank you!
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