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ShanghaiCycle t1_ivnxduk wrote

Reply to comment by Em_Adespoton in China taking ‘aggressive’ steps to gut Canada’s democracy, warns Trudeau by hugglenugget

Actually, Hong Kong wasn't a democracy while being a UK colony. They had a governor appointed by London, and universal suffrage as they know it now didn't start until between 1985 and 1995. That was after the handover was set in stone.

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Em_Adespoton t1_ivoqfqo wrote

While true, what you said has no bearing on what I said, which was not about democracy in Hong Kong but about CCP belt and road strategy that began influencing foreign policy around the same time as the handover.

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