31st August 2004, 12:13 AM
OB1 Wrote:And in 1997 China took over, but it's still a democratic island. HKSAR, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
China kept Hong Kong going as a experiment to see how a capitalist economy would do compared to their communist one.Also since some people in Hong Kong were either going to leave or perhaps start a popular rebelion and revolt which would pressure England to reconcider handing back Hong Kong concidering that it would cause bloodshed, So mainland China had no choice but to leave the democracy there,But peoples civil liberties can be suspended if China wants to and they even passed a law prohibiting Hong Kongers from critising the Chinese mainland communist goverment the punnishment would be time in jail or even death, Also the mainland goverment has censored the internet in Hong Kong to coincide with the law.