Billionaire Is Reported Seized from Hong Kong Hotel and Taken into China
I wonder, what would the world be like today if the UK had refused to give back Hong Kong? Or, they could have refused to switch recognition from ROC to PRC, and then handed Hong Kong to ROC instead?<p>The US and the UK basically gave the PRC everything they wanted in switching the UN&#x27;s China seat from ROC to PRC. They could have driven a much harder bargain – e.g. have two Chinas in the UN, just like it has two Koreas and used to have two Vietnams, two Germanys, two Yemens, etc; then HK and Macau could have been given back to ROC instead of PRC. But the US and UK were so obsessed with using PRC to spite the Soviets, they weren&#x27;t thinking about what it would mean 20, 30, 40 years later when the Soviet Union was defunct.