When did the uk give hong kong back to china?
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When did the transition of the UK giving Honk Kong back to China begin with a signed declaration? When did Hong Kong officially go back to China?
December 1984
July 1, 1997
Handover of Hong Kong
When did the uk give hong kong back to china?
Handover of Hong Kong British Hong Kong Sino-British Joint Declaration Hong Kong History of Hong Kong Democratic development in Hong Kong Hong Kong independence One country, two systems British nationality law and Hong Kong Transfer of sovereignty over Macau
The transfer of sovereignty over <b>Hong Kong</b>, commonly known as the handover 
of <b>Hong Kong</b> occurred at midnight at the start of 1 July 1997, when the <b>United</b>&nbsp;... <b>British Hong Kong</b> was a colony and <b>British</b> Dependent Territory of the <b>United</b> 
<b>Kingdom</b> from ... When Elliot promised that the <b>British</b> government would <b>pay</b> for 
their opium stock, the merchants surrendered ... In the 1920s, the working class 
<b>Chinese</b> of <b>Hong Kong did</b> not have a good reason to rally around the <b>Hong</b> 
<b>Kong</b>&nbsp;... In July 2017, when <b>British</b> Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson urged democratic 
progress in <b>Hong Kong</b>, <b>China&#39;s</b> foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said the 
legally&nbsp;... <b>Hong Kong</b> officially the <b>Hong Kong</b> Special Administrative Region of the 
People&#39;s Republic of ... The territory was <b>returned to China</b> in 1997. ... The Qing 
were again defeated, and forced to <b>give</b> up Kowloon Peninsula and Stonecutter&#39;s 
... <b>Hong Kong</b> was transferred to <b>China</b> on 1 July 1997, after 156 years of <b>British</b> 
rule. By the end of the war in 1945, <b>Hong Kong</b> had been liberated by joint <b>British</b> and 
<b>Chinese</b> troops and <b>returned</b> to <b>British</b> rule. <b>Hong Kong</b> greatly increased its&nbsp;... Democratic and human rights have been major issues since the transfer of 
sovereignty to ... Attempts to bring <b>Hong Kong</b> citizens to the negotiating table by 
the <b>British</b> ... However, <b>China</b> has been criticized for infringement on the “one 
country, two ... Liberal Party chairman James Tien <b>did</b> not <b>back</b> the referendum 
motion. <b>Hong Kong</b> independence (<b>Chinese</b>: 香港獨立) is a political movement that 
advocates for the ... Since the transfer of the sovereignty of <b>Hong Kong</b> from the 
<b>United Kingdom</b> to the ... to take <b>back</b> the territory, Britain resumed control of 
<b>Hong Kong</b> in 1945 after the ... &quot;Financial Times editor <b>given</b> one week to leave 
<b>Hong Kong</b>&quot;. &quot;One country, two systems&quot; is a constitutional principle describing the 
governance of Hong ... <b>Hong Kong</b> was a colony of the <b>United Kingdom</b>, ruled by 
a governor appointed ... during WWII) until 1997, when it was <b>returned to Chinese</b> 
sovereignty. ... Likewise, the <b>Hong Kong</b> Dollar is not accepted in stores in 
mainland <b>China</b>. <b>British</b> nationality law as it pertains to <b>Hong Kong</b> has been unusual ever since 
<b>Hong Kong</b> ... while the People&#39;s Republic of <b>China did</b> not recognise Hong 
Kongers with <b>Chinese</b> ancestry as <b>British</b>. ... have no other nationality or 
citizenship, who have not recently and deliberately <b>given</b> up another nationality 
or citizenship&quot;. The transfer of sovereignty of Macau from Portugal to the People&#39;s Republic of 
<b>China</b> (PRC) ... The history of Macau is traced <b>back</b> to the Qin Dynasty (221–206 
BCE), when the ... <b>Hong Kong</b> and Macau are part of <b>Chinese</b> territory occupied 
by the <b>British</b> ... Macau was not made part of the <b>Chinese</b> postcode system, nor 
<b>did</b> it&nbsp;...
1 July 1997
Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong