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ClumsyPilot
1y ago
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They said basically the same thing about HongKong. You can’t predict political landscape in 100 years
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Yeul
1y ago
The Chinese negotiators for Kowloon deliberately settled on 99 years. Probably because they knew they'd be lynched by the Chinese public otherwise. It was not a mistake made by the British they just couldn't get a better deal.
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