... on to accumulate enormous reserves. Secondly, the British government did not insist on the establishment of a normal income tax. Thirdly, Hong Kong's business interests continued to oppose reform and the Chinese business community remained unrelentingly hostile to anything resembling a normal income tax. Lastly...

... public. Stoppages were staged by the leftist camp on May 23. However, the effects of these small-scale stoppages on their respective services were negligible. The British government then decided to withdraw from Hong Kong since the Chinese People's Government intended to go for all-out confrontation...

...As the confrontation escalated, the British government started to consider the scenario of withdrawal from Hong Kong. They had prepared an evacuation plan in the early 1950s, which provided evacuation of 16,500 non-Chinese women, children, and elderly men only. However, in 1967, the plan, which...

.... To shore up confidence in Hong Kong, the British government announced the British Nationality Scheme in December 1989 in order to “give those selected the confidence to stay in Hong Kong up to and beyond 1997”. Chris Patten was the last governor of Hong Kong. Without anyone knowing what he would do...

...For the two weeks prior to his departure for Hong Kong, James Stewart Lockhart had a series of meetings at the Colonial Office about the New Territories. At the end of the fortnight's journey, he had gathered the mass of information required by the British Government and had done so with sufficient...

...When the British Government leased the New Territories it had—in Britain's view#x2014;sound mercantile and military grounds for doing so. By comparison, the lease of Weihaiwei was signed for a variety of confusing reasons. The British Government's views on the territory were muddled from the start...