Actually, Little Deng told Maggie the Iron Lady that if he want to he could march 10 divisions of PLA into HK anytime he wanted. He also said don't mistaken them for the Argentine.

But this is Aftcomm, history is for faggots.

Yes, especially since the lease treaties were made with a government that ceased to exist in 1914.  The successor to the Imperial government still exists in Taipei.  If anything, Hong Kong and Macau should have gone to that government.  All governments have a responsibility to ensure that their citizens or subjects are not living under tyranny, which a communist government most certainly represents.  The UK and Portugal thus had a responsibility to either maintain controul over their respective colonies or to turn them over to a freer government than that of the PRC, which is a government which cannot be trusted.

Look at their progress from the 50s until now. Lets see them fall back into poverty as Beijing takes over.

And as far as the international community is concerned, the successor to the Nationalist Republic government is the PRC.

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Put it this way, when the Peoples Army starts to massacre Hong Kong citizens no one in the administration is going to say boo.

Yeah, considering practically no country worth anything recognizes the PRC, at the expense of NOT recognizing the ROC Taiwan).
If the Brits had done anyhting but give them the land, I am sure the Communists would have threatened a total economic boycott (which is what they threaten to do if anybody formally recognizes Taiwan.

That being said...

It is true. Their aims are totally different from the 'Occupy' movement - it's unfortunate they are associated with that name. They want universal suffrage and true democracy,  they are not anti-capitalist or any of that nonsense. And so far there have been no drum circles.

Well, with the way things are going they'll have something in common with their mainland cousins. Tanks crushing them and the PLA firing randomly into crowds.

 

Members of Hong Kong’s peaceful pro-democracy movement were attacked Friday by what many protesters described as a thugs loyal to Beijing.

The clashes occurred in the Mong Kok neighborhood of Hong Kong, and police appeared overwhelmed by the fighting, which saw groups of men attack encampments belonging to the pro-democracy movement. While advisers to the government in Hong Kong have said that they hope to avoid a violent confrontation with protesters, Friday’s clashes may be an effort to intimidate the protesters and splinter the movement, which has show signs of strain amid its different factions.

Friday’s violence comes a day after Hong Kong’s embattled chief executive, Leung Chun-ying, said that he will accede to protesters demands that he step down but said that his government would be willing to talk with protesters. In the wake of the clashes, leaders of the pro-democracy movement said that they would call off talks if the government did not end what they described as “organized attacks” on protesters.