How Hong Kong Changed Countries
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Hey all, in case you don't know already, the numbers in the bottom, left corner of the video correspond to the sources of information at the bottom of the description. Many of those are good further reading on the topic.
Also, I just want to acknowledge one small narration slip-up. At 7:14 I say, "What was known was that the event would be centered around midnight on the night of July 30th, 1997." That should be *June* 30th, 1997.
NO WAY!!! Let me get this straight: You comment something that is unrelated to the fact that I smell like 100 dead orangutans? Considering that I am the unprettiest RUclipsr ever, smelling like 100 dead orangutans is really incredible. Yet you did not mention that at all. I am quite disappointed, dear wENDOVER
Hey, I love your videos. Keep it up!
As a HK citizen I'm really glad to see a video of us by one of my favorite RUclipsr :)
Wendover do you like the British or not...?
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I am one of the 110,000 that moved to Vancouver. I was 3 at the time. It's so fascinating how a seemingly arbitrary number, 99 years, shaped my whole life. Wonder how my life would be different if the number were 80, or 120.
捕捉野生Columbus lol.
99 doesn't really look arbitrary...
you hongkoners should've thought of that 99 years ago
@@davidsi5376 yikes.
哥倫布 Little Columbus I am one that went to America! But I’m still there, almost all my friends from Hong Kong went home. #freehongkong
I can always count on Wendover Productions to produce a fascinating video. Love you.
jesus is on hongkongers side😂
Wendover is better than you
Holy Crap I wasn’t expecting to see you here Jesus.
jesus forgive my sins
Boy I see you to much on YT. Get outta here lolol
As a Hongkonger, I really really appreciate that you devoted an entire video to us. I was not old enough to witness British Hong Kong myself. This video made me know just a little more, and it is kind of emotional for me. Thank you.
Being British, I'm interested to know what you think about both the past and the future?
@@tmarritt I second this, being British also.
If you had the option of making Hong Kong British again, would you?
Well I’m not really qualified to say this, I was born after the handover. But I think I can be quite confident to say that people are divided here. Most young people (like me) are against the Chinese. If given the chance, I’d probably want to make Hong Kong British again. But will it actually be better? Probably, but I cannot tell you.
@@WRGOP I am also a Hong Konger but ain't old enough to experience the British era. But I will say I want to go back to the British time because they gave us a lot, like business fortunes and sublime infrastructures, turning us from a small fishing village into a vibrant global city.
I guarantee whoever signed that 99 year deal never expected the Brits to actually ever give it back lol. They probably thought it would be forgotten in 100 years 😂
Then they greatly misunderstood the Chinese people. Like look at China's history. They don't seem like the type of people to just give land up. No shade.
Chinese always remember, especially things with numbers
...Pakistan...
Budget Bikes There were serious proposals to negotiate to make the lease permanent by the Governor of Hong Kong.
Yup
I remembered my school taught us the 'new' national anthem.
"What happened to the old one?" My classmate asked.
"Oh, we stopped singing that." My teacher answered.
Just like that. I guess that's why I never feel like I'm British nor Chinese; my nationality changed faster than I can change my mobile carrier.
You're Hong Kong Chinese. No one in the Anglosphere will mistake you for a Brit.
@AzerGhost16 Lol. Is that why the British amended their laws several times to make sure Hong Kong citizens would never have the right of abode in the UK, or a become British citizens, while granting it to the white Falklanders? The fact has been created by the White Brits, not by "the mainlanders".
Or, maybe you realized how meaningless it all was. Being British or Chinese means nothing more to you than the song they make you sing in class.
Oof, just be thankful if China considers you Chinese because Britain sure as hell won't see you as one of theirs
@AzerGhost16 Nah
Such an interesting history of a region! Thanks for sharing the story as always Wendover!!!
Agreed!
Couldn't agree more
Got to give up opium forever. Damn!!
Kinda cool that Hong Kong still has double-decker buses.
Yeah, just not human rights or democracy or any of the other British things they used to have sadly.
@@aguamalone7615 HK never have democracy , man. It was rule by British. HK citizen never have right to vote for their destiny until the time UK had to return approach , So the Brit start a Lego council election plan. They never want HK democracy while they were ruler by Governer.
@@alexlo7708 Get history right. Britain wanted to give Hong Kong democracy even back in the 60s, but China threatened war with Britain.
isaac ng hey, I know this is probably the truth cuz I've heard this before. But is there any specific words or term I can search about the British government actually suggested the ...democracy ? Cuz I wanna hv my prove next time I hear anyone say the British didn't have us democracy too bullshit. Btw hker here
@@gordon4672 An article (with pictures of the actual documents) about Britain trying to push for democracy in HK but "China wished the present colonial status of Hong Kong to continue with no change whatever"
talk.ltn.com.tw/article/breakingnews/2134476
Lord Patten also pushed for democracy in the final years of Hong Kong, including stepping down as the president of the legco and let legco elect its own president, and pushing for the first ever election for legco in 1995
zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AE%96%E6%B0%91%E5%9C%B0%E6%99%82%E6%9C%9F%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E6%94%BF%E6%B2%BB%E5%88%B6%E5%BA%A6%E6%94%B9%E9%9D%A9#%E5%BD%AD%E5%AE%9A%E5%BA%B7%E6%94%BF%E6%94%B9%E6%96%B9%E6%A1%88
zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995%E5%B9%B4%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E7%AB%8B%E6%B3%95%E5%B1%80%E9%81%B8%E8%88%89
I went to Europe for a holiday via Hong Kong in 1997. It was British on my way there and Chinese on my way back :)
it was technically an invasion
@@starshiphopper7044 at least mass protests were fruitful back then and ppl actually trusted the police
@Sakkra101 , but Beijing is the rightful owner of Hong Kong.
@@nuzayerov No, Hong Kong is the rightful owner of Hong Kong.
@@turnpike9680 scotland is the rightful owner of scotland
Wales is the rightful owner of wales
Ireland is the rightful owner of whole Ireland
And the list goes on🙂
I really thought China would replace "royal" with "The people's"
I think it's part of the 'one country two systems' framework? I think that China or whoever involved in this process recognized that 'the People's' has been more or less same as socialism or communism, especially during the cold war (most E. European communists that the USSR installed call themselves 'people's'), although literally it's not really true.
That would be a worse circumstance...
nah, more likely 'our'
David Freeman unlike the Ameritards, who didn’t claim themselves as people’s in the first people.
@@ViolaGMidi what country are you from fam?
The girl at 10:25 looking back one last time to her former home sums it all up really.
That girl is the daughter of Chris Patten.
I'm glad others have noticed her too. Have the same thoughts. How terrible can be knowing that it will turn to a s#!thole over time.
The end of Hong Kong's white ruling class. Whether that's a good or a bad thing probably depends on where you're from.
@@jeanbethencourt1506 i'm not sure why you made this a race thing but i can guess you're a lefty bot hehe.
@@jeanbethencourt1506 As it is. There´s always an asshole putting the race bullshit everywhere.
having gone for a literary exchange trip to hong kong with significant focus on this exact event, this is a really good goddamn video
edit: the political and social impacts of the turnover in the years that followed are also really interesting as well. this video isn't exactly about that but hong kong's resultant dual identity is a very unique predicament that has some really interesting long term effects that extend past the turnover itself into present day.
Hey I'm currently doing the same thing! In Hong Kong studying political science and taking some interesting courses on Hong Kong Politics!
Wendover! If you see this, please consider the following: I’m sure many people would love to see a follow up video on Hong Kong’s complex political and cultural situation ever since. It’s a topic that is both incredibly interesting and relevant. Hope you consider it! As always, a fantastic video, can’t wait to see what you do next.
@@ellistolfvenstam1508 oh yeah yeah
Hey you make good Geometry Dash levels
In case you guys are interested, Vox did a pretty good short series called Borders in Hong Kong, feel free to check it out.
You should do a similar video with Macau
Yes plz
That's Good 👍👍👍 👏👏👏, I Want To See That As Well
It’s kind of the same, just substitute the UK with Portugal
Macau was not as symbolic. Macau was already controlled by Chinese loyalists since the Chinese riots in the 70s. That's why you never heard about Macau. Because there is actually nothing for the western media to complain about.
@@ranelgallardo7031 Except that it was overall smaller and less attention-grabbing. However what's noticeable for the Macau one was a very young girl that was invited to sing an emotional patriotic song, 'the song of 7 sons: Macau' (HK should have its version originally, but I don't think it went famous and was thus not performed)
Pre-1997 - Britain
1997- Britain't
pre~1841-China
1842~1997-Britain
1997~ China
@@ecthelionyoou8231
pre-1841 *Gong Jin-ou playing*
1842-1997 *God save the queen starts playing*
1997 *March of vollounteirs bass booster earrape plays*
I know that góng jin'ou was adopted in 1911, I needed something for Qing
@@CosmicDalmatian you're disrespectful to an anthem
@@ecthelionyoou8231 What do you mean?
@@CosmicDalmatian maybe I misunderstood the "earrape"?
I'll be very curious to see what happens in 2047 when Hong Kong ceases to be semi-autonomous and is fully in the control of mainland China. How will it impact business and the citizens living there?
Well in fact Hong Kong is already changing in the past few years where the city is becoming more and more Chinese and less and less Hong Kong
That’s even if we make it to 2047 considering Hong Kong is already being oppressed as we speak!
china will absorb hong kong and hong kong will lose its way of life and its status. just another chinese city which will be the same as Guangzhou, shenzhen, and other chinese megacities. I believe that will be little to no negotiation as China has begin to absorb hong kong already, and with china's power on the rise, there will be no hope.
@@lauraqueentint There's always hope. It is the matter of the people, if people change, systems will change
@@battledroid224 I want to believe in Hong Kong, I do. after all, I live there. It's just that no matter what the people do, there's no escaping china or its system. China has become too powerful in the last 30 years or so that nobody, not even the US could stand up to China. The communist system is likely to stay, at least for another 60 years.
At least in my lifetime, I don't think there will be any big scale change in the systems currently in place.Particularly seen as the Communist system doesn't give the people a voice in how the elites are running the country.
That must have been so stressful for so many people...
And terrified.
for losers.
Bet is wasn't as stressful as right now in HK.
The rich left and the poor become opressed. The Chinese Communists are evil.
ØCCULT Bass extradition
My mom was a domestic worker in Hong Kong and was there to witness the handover. She brought home pictures of the parade and festivities from the streets of Kawloon. As a child I never really understood how significant how significant the event is but I'm glad I we got to keep a little piece of history in those pictures.
That thumbnail is amazing.
I know, right?
200 years ago: people fight for drugs
Today: people fight for drugs
We have evolved so much as a society
Today: people fight for drugs with modern guns*
We live in a society
Marcus Young so true
I think the real difference was that in the past we (the British) fought for the right to be international drug dealers and now that is _slightly_ more frowned upon....
So proud of this community
Only 18 more years of being able to access RUclips my Hong Kong brothers.
A bit longer than that, it supposed to be 28 more years.
@@supawathorsuwan9306 1 2 3 quick maffs!
You'll be lucky to get another 2 years at the rate things are going. Never trust the Chinese to honour a deal.
Only a few more months*
@@OryAlle Honour what deaL? The deal's already long gone the moment the protest for the security act became a riot for independence.
I like how you only hold one side accountable for honouring a deal. The HKers who did not want to return to China, simply grew too desperate as the time neared. China doesn't even needa rush man. Just sit and wait till 2041, what's so hard about that? LOL.
Even now, they can just let HK riot till 2041. They're already replacing HK as a financial hub for access into Chinese markets. And HK's already lost its special trading status. What need is there to rush into HK? lol.
Pity the Hkers all you want. But none of us get to choose where we are born.
And so the sun truly set on the British Empire
They still have some scattered territories(colonies) in Atlantic ocean, Pacific ocean and Indian ocean
@@ankitchoudhary9858
A handful of nigh uninhabited islands an Empire does not make
@@HaydenLau. no, the name does. Japan has an Emperor.
@@alexanderhowarth6460
1. Does Japan have an empire anymore?
2.The Japanese word for emperor has no "empire" within it. 天皇 means heavenly king, not emperor. There's no implication that there is an empire.
@@alexanderhowarth6460 the only East Asian emperor was the Chinese one, as others agreed about 2000 to 1000 years ago, and so they took the Chinese language, some Chinese culture and develop their own. That's why royals in Bhutan, and Japan uses 4 claw dragon, not 5. Because 5 claws is the "true dragon" is for the emperor only.
The look on Prince Charles's face pretty much says it all.
@Jay Saenz "seems"
"Oh shit, we can't keep occupying land we robbed through drug trade and aggressive war" I guess it says that?
@@aliuli657 I mean Charles doesn't rule anything, he's a) a prince, and b) only going to be a King who's a figurehead not really a head of state.
Also from what I've read Charles is quite liberally minded so he probably didn't exactly agree with the British colonies either.
ali uli
Lol salty
I think the face of the governor's daughter says quite a bit more, but ... **shrug**
'The Hong Kong Handover' why does that sound like it should be the name of a gta mission
there is already a hong kong combat game called sleeping dogs
Do one about Macau and how it became the Gambling capital of china
Macau became richer under Chinese Rule than Portagise Rule
if it wasnt for the portuguese, macau would be a fishing village
@Lin J opium is a British thing, the Portuguese didn't even use force. They bought it
@@teixeira476 Wrong! If it wasn't for the Portuguese, Macau would have been better than Shenzhen and Shanghai.
I’m Macanese, I ❤️ Portugal
Hong Kong, from the product of Opium War, to "One of the Four Asian Tigers" :)
Sadly, after the hangover, HK is just a normal city of China, without much power and autonomy.
In the past, HK was f--ked by British, now HK is f--ked by Chinese Communist Party and people from mainland China
We simply don't need sex cuz we are f--ked everyday. (Before and after 1997)
And HK keeps deteriorating in terms of economy, freedom, corruption etc.
- a HK citizen born and raised in HK.
@@jackyeung3677 do you wanna go independent, go Independant wih macau, go with the ROC, join up with Macau, Singapore as a single nation join the usa, join Israel, join Kosovo?
@@mikeoxsmal8022 The thing is we can't. Us citizens can't make these decisions, and the president of Hong Kong is pro-Beijing, she supports what China is doing to us and isn't trying to stop it. So yes, although many citizens want independence, there's really not much we can do about it unfortunately.
@@mikeoxsmal8022 I can't imagine Hong Kong ever becoming a single nation with Singapore lol. But I do hope that the two countries can continue being good allies with one another whilst fostering a healthy competition between each other
for your reference, the tiger is dead now
Ok when is the first plane reference?
Edit: 9:15
I've been living in Hong Kong for 5 years now, you can really feel the British influence.
Águila701 If you’re not British you won’t notice it as much. Just things on the surface like red busses etc. If you are British though you’ll pick up more things. Like the exact same ice cream vans you see as a kid. Post boxes, plug sockets, driving on the left, street names are identical than ones found in London, pubs etc. It’s really quite bizarre as a Brit visiting Hong Kong because it’s so different than you’re used to but also exactly the same, if you get my meaning.
you can really feel the china influence.
@Águila701 I lived in HK for 9years, UK for 5 years and AU for 1 year... I can tell you that there are a lot of similarities you could find between these places, almost like if you are living in the same country, there is almost no difference on how the society works, how people behave, people's core value and so on...
Weirdly, as a Hong Konger who went to college in UK felts more or less the same. I know it’s the British influence, but somehow my brain tricked me into thinking “wow, the brits do this and that exactly the same way as us in HK” lol
ps. I wish HK the best and away from commies.
"Britain was gone from Hong Kong, for good" in February 2019
"B R U H" in June, 2019
Bruh revolution moment wait is that the police NO-
It was a great cover of Hong Kong even as a Hongkonger! Great job!
If given a referendum tomorrow, would you vote to become British again(and I assume eventual independence) or remain part of China? As a Brit I would love to have you guys back! But it should of course go to the people, as it should of in the 90s!
Keith Watson my parents are hongkonger and i know that they would vote for british rule over chinese rule, but all three of us would vote for independence if that rederendum was a thing which it isint and never will be, home island is fimly under china’s thumb and there isnt much we can do about it, it is a simular situation to Norther Ireland you know so yeah.
Unfortunately, The Chinese would not allow any referendums to be held and that is their policy right from the handover!
Mike wangsama what?
@@keithwatson1384 "We would love to have you guys back..." Jesus, do you have any idea what the outcome could be? Anyone who possess a working brain wouldn't want that. Despite the immediate worse foreign diplomacy UK will have with China which will have a major impact on Britain's trade, UK simply can't afford to maintain HK's social welfare system such as Healthcare and the monetary contribution from HK will be significantly less than you expected since China does not rely on them anymore which really is now the opposite. Like it or not, HK need China more than their people imagined.
Fascinating video, excellent job!!!
Once upon a time there was an empire on which the sun never set, then the sun set. The End.
Actually considering the UK still owns territories across the world the sun still technically hasn't set...
@Lo C LOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLL
@Wanderer628 it metaphorically set a long time ago.
@british intelligence, oh please, the British Empire met its inglorious end.
what-if.xkcd.com/48/
Relevant XKCD
The Sun never sets on the British Empire!! R U L E B R I T A N N I A
Lmao i first read: The Hong Kong Hangover
So alcoholic of you
“The story of Carrie Lam getting drunk on Baijiu.”
As long as its not Hongkong Wendover
Vancouver Productions
Handover Productions
@@quark-eisernunion4111 *Hilarious and Original*
Opium Production
ruclips.net/video/fxoUNzrt26Q/видео.html
1989 documentary on the early effects of the Hong Kong migration in Vancouver.
China Uncensored
>change team?
Not at all, a change in the teams leadership, which a minimum of half the team was unsatisfied with, amd scared of!
YOU ARE NOW ON RED!
The teams have been auto-balanced
@@Eira_ AAAahaHHhHaHAHhHhhHHHHH
Like italy
Hong Kong could have kept communism out by using Dashlane
Or use nordvpn
wut...
jack chung holy shit mate, calm down, it’s just a joke
Even by brute force
@@SniperBoy-hp6xr Hong Kongers gotta escape the Great Censorwall of China somehow to regain their dignity.
A correction: you don’t have to be born in HK to hold British National (overseas) passport
But if one of your parents is Hong konger by origin and you were born before July 1st 97 then you are eligible to hold BNO passport
I’m saying this cause my dad is Hong konger and I wasn’t born in HK and I got BNO passport....
Useless piece of paper
@@spacebjorn Useless? It allows you to live in a different country.
As a Hong Konger, thanks for this video. It's a topic which although has been talked about for several times, is still very interesting and something which is needed to be covered to understand the current situation with Hong Kong.
Does anyone else kinda feel sad watching this?
Kieron Reid nope, think it like this, 1.britain op takes a piece of china
2.china recover his own land
3. britain becomes the victim
Just a bit
The Chinese government are already starting to become oppressive over the people of Hong Kong. Particularly on freedom of speech. Someone who published a book about the Tiananmen Square
Massacre was taken away by Chinese authorities in the middle of night and never seen again.
The same way I feel sad when watching a burglar having to return a TV he stole.
One could argue the CCP is not the rightful government of China and making the treaties null for the CCP. It would make sense for Taiwan to get Hong Kong instead... idk that is something I heard. I find it interresting to think about.
Those 35% who were uncertain about Hong Kong's future were right
I'm from Hong Kong and even though this place is getting more and more messed up I'm still super excited to see a video with so much views about us -A-
Wow, you're good at Cities: Skylines!
yesdrop
ahhahaha only we get it xD
lmaooo
wait what
I dont get it and I play CSL :(
‘At 7:11, the sunset for the last time in British Hong Kong’
*Saddest Phrase Ever*
Didn't realize ending colonialism is sad but okay
@@heatherswanson1664 yeah because they are doing SO WELL NOW aren't they you Liberal berk
@@Infern0121 Colonialism is fine so long as authoritarian dictatorships are doing it, apparently.
Hong Kongxit
As a Brit, I say double-RIP
MAKE IRELAND UNITED AGAIN
You mean Chinentry...
@@tronalddump5447 Ulster is British
Technicality never would happen cuz China would just start war
Hong kong is such a unique place. Unfortunatly, it is geting less so.
Major China cites copied the Hong Kong model since the hand over and Hong Kong Is slowly losing their sovereignity
Never like there when it was under uk. never like it there when it a chinese.
Shanghai Shenzhen MUCH BETTER than Hong-Kong
Born in HK, seeing how China spoil HK
@@Matanumi china always copying other stuffs
What if the UK gave Hong Kong to Taiwan
@@GL-xe5vx So is that why Hong Kong has one of the highest inequality indexes in the entire world (Outranking even the USA and Singapore) and why so many people live in shitty box homes?
WWIII.
@@Odinsday because they choose to. They can move up to mainland and live in big empty houses. But HK is a city full of opportunities, so they choose to live in a cage instead.
That would be like England spitting in China's face and may have started a war lol.
Then you won't be here and typing this innocent sentence.
You SO should have talked about how people feel about it after - the accuracy of predictions, the effects it has on geo-politics to this day, and the percent of people who're happy -- who live in HK. No matter... thank you again, for an excellent episode within your excellent series. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's curious as to whether you [write] your scripts yourself..
My Hong Konese friends are very worried.They trusted the communists.
@@capcompass9298 They are yellow skin black hair, the white doesn't give a shit about them but just use them to constraint China.
@@bs2801 I'm pretty sure Hong-Kongers would have loved to have the Brits - and democracy/freedom - back. It's unfortunate for everyone - except the Chinese government - that the UK had to give up on Hong-Kong.
@@ZiggyMercuryHong Kong is like 90% dependent on mainland
I can see why Taiwan says "no thanks" to China
@王志贤 Its interesting that your govt bans most of the internet to her own people. And yet here we are talking about truth.
Boi Boi China just banned the social media platform from US. You think the ban is not helpful to China? If you know the top 20 Internet companies in the world, and 11 is from US and 9 is from China, you will know why the ban is helpful to China. The rest of world are all forced to accept the American values while only China develop its own modernization model. Are you still thinking only being able to use American media platforms and searching engine is of advantages to other countries? I wish you know, the era after IT technology is DT, which is Data technology and obviously it is based on quantities of data. So now only China and US have their own searching engine and media platforms to collect data, and this is why only China and America dominated in Internet and Communication tech. Now if you a citizen which not belongs to US, you should be sad. Because the leading competition in the future has nothing to do with your country.
lol but considering that so many people who voices their unique political opinion go to prison who in the world is going to believe that chinese's internet is an awesome source of truth. yo you clearly never use google in the different countries to see for yourself that there are little america shit on the so called america platform
@@JPMatty nobody is forced to accept American values. What is "American values" anyway? Openess or closeness? Freedom or Socialism? It changes every 4-8 years. Atheism or Christian? Chinese populace should have the right to access the web and to choose for themselves
@@finding_aether I'm confused you promoted that people choose the info for themself and yet promote that internet is to be regulated at the same time?
One of the few times being a colony was preferable, at least to some.
If you look at many colonies at the time of independence, particularly in the Caribbean and surprisingly in Africa, many had thriving economies its just that they have declined since then and have gotten into the hands of socialists and dictators!
A referendum pre-Thatcher-Tang talk shows > 80% prefer status quo, only < 10% looks forward to a then hypothetical handover.
Colonies are stable because they are colonies, they use some of the stolen resources by the colonisers. However the UK doesn't have the money to hold these colonies anymore, that money has dried up and the new powers have stepped in.
Hong Kong isn't just a "colony". It is as autonomous as a "Republic of Hong Kong" remarked in humor by the Colonial Office. HK could have gone in the same path to full formal self-governence, democracy and independence as other dominions and Singapore, if not for the opposition from PRC and the CPC-staged 1967 Riots (basically state-sponsored terrorism) in the shadows of Cold War.
@@koverpy426 We run like dominion or a semi-state if you may. But all thanks to China, we are now going down.
That really made me emotional seeing the British leave Hong Kong. I remember when the handover took place but I dont remember seeing the flags lowering and raising and all of the symbolism involved.
Represents the revival of China.
The day democracy died in Hong Kong
@@hugostiglitz9149 British HK has no democracy. White governors were directly sent from U.K. Get your facts right
Though Britain has been a plague to its colonies. Still it's better than China
@@zhiliaop3616 "revival"
What a video! Probably one of the best videos about Hong Kong. Born in the 2000s, i never got a chance to experience the British rule of Hong Kong but this video let me know more about my homecity! Cheers guys well done👍
I waa Born in the 80s, We had British style Birth Certificate.
Young people are emigrating from HK, including me.
Good Luck
Good luck my friend The way things are looking I would not have a good feeling. Every time I would walk by that Chinese barracks I would feel like it’s an occupying force. Just a reminder of who’s boss
cococly chinese are glad to hear it ! chinese territory is for chinese people
@@TheJoeSwanon you dumb fuck.
i finally know why my family has decided to move to nz now. history is amazing!
I can't believe it's been fifty years since 1997.
Thanks for the video! My family was part of that immigration wave from Hong Kong to Australia in the early 80s. The year I moved Madonna’s like a Virgin LP came out :)
I remember the handover, I was watching Jackie Chan movies on the lead up to the event, I am a massive HK cinema buff of the 70's - 90's era
The expansion of Hong Kong into the Kowloon peninsula it was only ever leased for like 6 months but really was was ceded in perpetuity to Great Britain in October 1860 with Boundary Street marking the southern part of Kowloon that was ceded- in essence only the New Territories were ever leased by Britain!
I almost cry this is so sad :'(
Mean while I'm Macau:
*"Meh in Portugese"*
what did you guys think of the Portuguese? Was life better? If given the choice would you return?
@@keithwatson1384 no,i am macauese,we like staying china,we are much more richer than in portugal,portugal is a shithole country
@Eric H you r stupid,we are much more richer than most european countries
When I was still in kindergarten, we had a day-off, only that we all could watch live handover at home.
Wendover forgot Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan) was fighting gangs on the harbour, on the same night of the handover.
We don't care what flag we fly alongside the hibiscus, as long as we can keep the freedoms afforded to us by the British
@Jonathan Williams You presume to know better... Why? Do you live in Hong Kong?
@Jonathan Williams Again, you know... How?
Hopefully you can keep them perhaps China will slowly transition away from Communism
Jonathan Williams honestly, that channel is just BS
Jonathan Williams ad hominem
Interesting that so many Hong Kong citizens moved to Vancouver, BC, specifically. I was 9 in 1997, so I remember wrapping my head around that change in geography classes. More importantly than that, though: I grew up in the Vancouver area. Some of my closest friends were Hong Kong immigrants. Even when Hong Kong became part of China in 1997, those friends of mine whose families had come over years before continued to consider themselves *not* Chinese. This is in notable contrast to the international students we hosted just 5-8 years after the handover who had come from Hong Kong; they were Chinese. All of them, both the friends I grew up with and the students who lived with us in my teenage years, were born when Hong Kong was British.
Would you call yourselves "华人“ rather than “中国人” ？Like you weren't born in the People's Republic of China but like neither were the Chinese-Malaysians or any other foreign Chinese group.
It’s actually quite interesting to see the demographic of Chinese in GVA where the hk ppl will be in Richmond, mainland Chinese in burnaby Taiwanese in Fraser heights. They in general also don’t mix well with each other too.
*Rule Britannia, Britannia rule the waves*
Also as good as forever? I don’t think they know what forever means
It was a traditional thing. 99 year lease was a nice way of saying this is ours forever and you can try and take it back if you'd like. Unfortunately for the UK, times change, and although they did consider it, they were in no position to fight over Hong Kong. There are a lot of other examples of 99 year leases, but Hong Kong is the most significant
Should have said "100" year lease... Then they would have been ultimate boss
From a Libertarian point of view, no country should rule over another country. But in the real world it does not work that way.
Should write 9999 years.
@@chongjunxiang3002 That's over 9000!
My parents immigrated to the US from Hong Kong in 2001 a couple of years after the handover. They always talk about that day that Britain left and how it was one of the saddest moments of their life. After that they did everything possible to leave the country and moved to San Diego, and a couple of years later I was born here :)
America still represents freedom to people like your family and yourself even though so many people here complain about it unfortunately, but yet again that's their freedom to do so.
Don James i'd hate being born in the US. yuk
@@dodovomitory3496 What would be your preferred country?
Don James somewhere in Europe
@@dodovomitory3496 Of Europe I would pick either Switzerland, Monaco, or the Netherlands, top three pick from that continent.
As a HongKonger, I always feel sad when someone talks about the British left Hong Kong that day. Just don't want the British rule end like that.
REIES as a Brit I think it would’ve been pretty cool to still be with Hong Kong :(
If u love the Brits that much, why don't u move to England?
@@yogawan3805 As I just said, I am a HongKonger, why should I leave my loved home? Where is your strange thinking logic from?
@@78495184 lol can't u read? I already said "IF u love the Brits that much, why don't u move to England?"
Do you even know how the Brits get Hong Kong in the first place? Do you even know how many people die during "Opium wars"?
And why u "White Worshiping" while they even don't consider u part of their Citizenship?
Ini this video mention about "British National (Overseas) passport" but it "Doesn't have rights to lived and work in UK".
Do you realize that? To them u just sub human, while u Worshiping em.
@@yogawan3805 Indeed people die because of opium war, but if there wasn't the war, Hong Kong won't exist and I am pretty sure that "I" will not exist. British left us with BNO for sure, but do not ignore the fact that they are the one who runs Hong Kong well and good. What I want to say is that they did a better job in ruling this city than its successor.
My aunt lives at Hong Kong, AND I WISH TO GO THERE JUST TO RIDE THE MTR ALL DAY EVERYDAY 365 DAYS A YEAR
I've never learned so much about Hong Kong as I did today.
Thank you so much for this video.
wait 'til you learn about hong kong protests
You have got a subscriber from Hong Kong :)
They didnt even talk about HOW Hong Kong was stolen by the British by poisoning Chinese. Their Psyops is really strong in HK when tricked the people living there to wave their colonial flag. Wow just wow. Stockholm syndrome. HKers being treated as second class citizens. And yeah I lived here for 10 years. It's sad. HKers need to be free from both but sticking with imperialists that killed your ancestors and poisoned them through hate, greed and racism? Learn your history!
@@JH-dl6vu So you are part of the CCP's infiltration?
Sure sounds like it!
@@mwtrolle Anything that contradicts to your belief must be :gasp: communists! lmao go pound sand, fitting as it comes from mw"troll". A danish dolt that trolls the internet that hasn't even stepped foot defending what europeans did to the rest of the world. HKers deserve freedom against against people like you and the chinese.
Funny how only europeans could call the kettle black while killing the rest of the world full of brown and black people then wave their fingers at china and HK pretending to be on their side. Theyre pretending to be on their side because they hate the chinese more than anything and want to have the only threat for global hegemony eliminated.
Do HKers really believe that theyre fighting for "democracy"? lol These countries arent even democratic (British, America) Consitutional Monarchy and US is a constitutional republic. Chinese couldnt even vote under british rule! lol Once this settles, it'll be something else. Being second class citizens in your own country because some white folks bombed them.
Learn from brown and black people, theyre here to destroy your country from within as they have been doing for centuries and look at how they do the rest of us in the UK and US. Their whole country is founded on theft murder and exploitation of brown, yellow and black people around the world through colonization. This is them fighting against the one power that could possibly topple western white supremacy. That's why theyre fighting so hard, it isn't about democracy lol, since when were we ever a democracy. Lies that your teacher told ya!
A westerner would normally quickly point finger and say "you must be funded by CCP", to avoid a complete world view collapse, because deep down inside, they know they are evil.
Stockholm syndrome?
Used to be Hong. Now it's Kong.
Huh?
"Hong" moved to and replaced the "Van" in Vancouver :-) @@XXRolando2008
Max the Big Bad Britain? More like Brit ain’t gottem
@@jjc4232 HK people do not realize that the UK is as bad as the CCP. The only path to true salvation is our own republic.
FUCKING XD
Hong Kong was leased for ONLY 99 years, and forget about the thousands of years they were part of China LOL. You would think from all these comments they were British owned for centuries. These comments are SO dramatic like "oh my parents moved to vancouver its shaped my entire life" Honey, thousands of people immigrate everyday, even if HK wasn't a colony your parent's might've still immigrated. Your HK parents ancestors were immigrants from southern china.
I swear HK is the only place where their people go "support the Brits and eff China". You never get a black person saying "eff Africa and support America!" . Sorry but most Brits don't care about what is HK, every Asian is Chinese or covid to them anyway. They'll tell you to swim back to your own country.
Because the mainland was closed in the past, it could only be exported through the small island of Hong Kong. Hong Kong people can exchange a bowl of beef for a female college student to sleep for one night. Today, Hong Kong has become one of many cities in China that are not conspicuous. Some people miss the old days.
I think, depending on location, the previous century can actually be a lot more impactful than the years before that. After all, everyone you know will only have been alive during that time. From what I’ve heard of Hong Kong, it’s really a mix of Chinese and British cultures. Even today, with all the Chinese government has done to suppress that. Apparently you can really feel the British influence around you. The fact that one of their official languages is English probably makes a big difference, but that’s not what I’ve heard mentioned. Apparently it’s more of a vibes thing. Especially since the previous century was the industrial age, culture was changing much faster during that time than it was during the centuries before it.
Also though, don’t you think maybe you should listen to the people whose culture it actually is? In your comment you mention comments from people whose parents literally moved because of it. Those people know better about this subject than you do. You don’t get to be the arbiter of how “British” Hong Kong is, from the perspective of Hong Kongers. If people there think it’s more British than you do, guess what, they’re the ones with actual lived experience.
Hey wendover, could you make a video about macau handover?
Macau as I know doesn't have a lot of fuss.
The biggest difference was that Portugal lost control over Macau's Chinese community long before the handover. Most of Macau was run by trade unions.
Imagine the world we would be living in if Britain simply declared that Taiwan were the rightful owners of that 99 year lease and the CPC was entitled to nothing as usurpers. How much of a better place we might be...
And how would they have enforced that declaration?
Literally nothing would have changed, and the cpc is as much of an "usurper" as the US government is.
The quality of Wendover Productions is astonishing. THIS is how it should be done.
Historically, 99 year leases are an obscured way of really saying "forever, but actually until it's taken away by an aggressor by force". Really it was a historical anomaly that the lease was upheld all the way through
It was a combination of widespread anti-colonialism and China’s growth as a substantial military force that allowed them to enforce the return of their territory. Despite the success seen by the UK in the Falkland War, the country was facing mounting international criticism due to their handling of the conflict and preceding events in Northern Ireland, and would have no way to militarily enforce their claim effectively on Hong Kong should China choose to enforce the terms of the lease.
This is how media misled people.... British dominance in Hong Kong started from 1842, but HK did not become prosperous until the 1960s. Hong Kong's prosperity can be attributed to the fast development of globalization, its special status as a financial center and most importantly, before mainland China's opening-up, HK was the most important transit for all the exports or imports coming between China and rest of the world
Good point indeed, but no one really cares because it doesn't tell the importance and the superiority of "freedom and democracy."
Will TWL (that wikipedia list) ever come back ?
He made a new channel that's basically the old TWL series.
It's called "Half as Interesting"
A Chinentry. Or a Hongxit?
UK: leaves Hong Kong.
China: how i love to get more clay!
Portugal: oh no....
Who's here after watching the no china extradition protest
@@Chris-vs9so oh my, even the Fuhrer is shocked.
Free Hong Kong
Me
lmfao free Hongkong with ur keyboard?
@@ccvvssgg6844 Lmfao support speech freedom oppressor with your keyboard on a free speech platform?
Hong Kong has left *_Britain_*
Hong Kong has joined *_China_*
If you liked this comment you'll love my videos
Just saying
China: *Kill confirmed (bloop)*
Both of my parents were 2 of the 3 million HK people who moved away from HK to Seattle before 1997 in the 1970's 73' for my mom's family and 78' for my dad.
now please do the same, but with Macua!
(There are less to talk about. They basically copied us.)
Macau*
@@natheniel Sure, it doesn't make it less important and it's not true that has less things to talk about. Plus, Portugal stayed for a much longer time in Macau than GB in Hong Kong.
you know what is funny is that Portugal begged to let go of Macau but China denied it until 1999.
@@exoticredtadpole2713 You know what's funny?... Is that you believe in such cancerous bs. Go learn some history and then come back...
9:18 you found a way to mention planes, of course you did\
yass #10 on trending here in england
Everyone is immigrated to Canada, US, UK or Australia and I'm here in Germany. I'm Still thankful for the decision my parents made and I do think it's for the best thinking of the future
Lucky u man. And here I am still living in this "soon-to-be"hell cuz my parents weren't that wealthy. And people still think money doesn't matter ?fk them ..
Don't give up, my friend. Communist animals and their supporters should end behind the bars, where they like to put whole nations. As a Russian, I know how cruel Communist pigs may be. Respect to all free Hong Kongers
yeah and no one gives a fxxk about where you moved to
For everyone wondering. HK Island and Kowloon were seized to the UK by perpetuity and therefore the UK could have kept them, but they decided not to, since China offered a deal in wich UK Corporations could still make money and Hong Kong stays basically the same. I just changes countries. We’ll see if this 50-year threatshold will continue
the people writing the agreement should of put "9999" years not 99
Aliens in year 11,897 : the people writing this agreement shoulda put 9999999 years.
Rumor has it Britain is thinking of shipping HK 5,000 tons of opium to deal with today's stress.
Hi love your videos! Just a small point, the Union flag is only known as the 'Union Jack' when it's on a boat!!
This comment is to appreciate the interesting old footage of Hong Kong. Thank you!
does HK people vote under British rule ?
Nope. Until 1991, the Hong Kong Governor appointed all of the legislature and the courts. Hong Kong was way more democratic under Chinese rule now than British rule back then.
@@adrianl4766 yet idiot naive students think the opposite
Hong Kong was STOLEN by force. China and most of the world were forced to cede part of their country in unfair treaties (just like how Most European powers did to everyone of color throughout history). When China and European trade rose, Europeans did not like how they were losing their precious metals (Mostly Silver), to "coolies" so they told China they would give them opium (which they had a monopoly from India and Turkey) instead. China said they didnt want drugs, tried to stop the illegal drug flow into the country which was destroying the country with addicts. See: Lin Zexu's letter to Queen Victoria. So European powers banded together to attack China through warfare and murder, only when China surrendered, they signed a unfair treaty and gave up their land to Britain, France, America, Russia. They made them second class citizens in their own country while peddling drugs. Just like how they Stole the Americas and Canada, Australia, Indo-China, Africa and everything else in history through racism and imperialism because they thought they had a RIGHT to everything people of color had since they were "savages" to them. They rightfully gave the land back because Britain could no longer control China and Margaret had to or else she would have been humiliated again. Oh yeah Thatcher watched the Tiananmen, condemned it and did nothing as well. Hypocrites. How about telling us the REAL history instead of leaving the real parts out? This is how history changes for the victor. Notice how the video quickly passes over this and says just "another opium war another treaty" with ZERO information about what happened. Exactly, that would show us who the true evil in this world was and still is. Brown and Black people around the planet know this.
@@JH-dl6vu Was it only the British that had empires?
Read a fucking book on human history you pathetic victim.
@@JH-dl6vu Chinese had been consuming opium for deca des before the East Indian Company started trading opium, and they were growing opium themselves. Stop painting the Chinese as innocent victims of all conflicts with Europeans would be a start if you want to write about true history.
Can you please do a video about Hong Kong’s protests?
I’m from Hong Kong... I’m defo dipping after high school, can’t live the commie way. My uncle lives in Toronto, and I can confirm parts of it is basically Hong Kong when I visited him a while back.
You speak English well and seem like you want to truly be part of the Canadian culture so we'll be happy to have you! We're all for anybody who wants to come and be part of us. Where the friction comes in is when people come here, stick to Chinatown and make zero effort to be part of this country. Vancouver has very bad pockets of this in actual Chinatown and in Richmond. Keeping your traditional clothes? Sure. Speak Mandarin at home? Have at it, but please just be part of society as a whole when you are out and about like the rest of us. There are tons of South Americans, Indians etc here and when everyone all gets along it's wonderful.
@@jasondashney We don't speak Mandarin, we speak Cantonese
@@1224chrisng 他的意思是在加拿大希望大家说通用语言英语以融入大环境，他管你是普通话还是广东话，笑死我了，一天天尽想把自己高看一眼。不知道哪来的自信😂
Come to Canada if you can. We would be happy to have you here.
As always fascinating Narration and content creation. Subbed you
Hello from *Hong Kong* !
Hello from Singapore
this is a very good video i am from hong kong and i didn't know this. This is so useful thank you very much wendover productions
This deservers a sub
Now we all know how BAD this decision was. Poor Hong Kong. :-(
It's nice that you made this video. The plans were finalised on my birth year, and within five years, my parents had migrated to Australia taking me along. While I have lived most of my life in Sydney, my extended family still lives in Hong Kong and it's very interesting to see how things had developed. Mishandling of the economy was a rather frequent thing you hear coming out of the city since after the handover. And more recently, it's been a pressure cooker of political upheaval against the CCP and their under-the-table handlings with government and business manipulation.
The Chinese Communist Party involvement wasn't very clear until the last couple of years when the Umbrella Movement happened, and you see the CCP's direct involvement via White Paper directives which further eroded civil rights, freedom of speech, and rights to protest, etc. Mass migration of mainland citizens coming into the city has also been entirely mishandled, causing extreme strains on the public system. My own aunts struggled to find a spot in a public hospital to give birth to my younger cousins, find baby formula to feed them, and finding a suitable and local kindergarten for them to attend. This is all due to anchor babies, and mainland citizens moving into HK knows they get better conditions of living, but the amount of them coming through means the condition has worsened so much for naturalised citizens of HK.
The union and cooperation of the east and west, as with Japan post WWII, showed that there are things we can learn from each other. Of course, there were teething issues and a lot of rampant corruption at the start, but it smoothed out over a couple decades and really captured the best of what eastern and western thinking has to offer. Now it's just new money opportunistic communists that operate the city, slowly replacing existing representatives of the people with faceless CCP representatives, in positions of power and money. They made a joke of the British established ICAC. The corruption, nepotism, and greed is as worse (if not more) than what we hear about in the west. Yes, unchecked capitalism is very bad, but wait till you see the Chinese play capitalism!
A lot of people who stayed in HK banked on the CCP learning from their mistakes and eventually the central government would be empathetic to the citizens of HK, but what eventually became glaringly obvious is the capital success was taken from HK and emulated in Shanghai, mass public funds moved away from HK, and sock puppet representatives in the Legislative Council. The CCP wants HK to stall, because it would then be of little value to the west and thus the developed world wouldn't really care. I've been specifically talking about the CCP because I believe in a distinction between 'China' and its 'political party', and as a respect towards the Chinese people who are pawns to a government who act more in the realms of 'The Party's Republic of China'. Their foreign policies are always playing on false equivalence to excuse themselves from their shameful acts. It's a damn shame that the Chinese people are caught between the crossfire.
汉奸就滚出中国
Wonder if a referendum had been held whether Britain would still control Hong Kong
This video is kinda sad
Some call this The End of The British Empire!
@Magni56 The Empire will always live on.
@Magni56 🙄 I don't like talking to the uneducated..
@Magni56omg, did you look up conundrum in the dictionary? lol..
True. The Imperial population went from 6m to a few hundred thousand.
@Magni56 It took you one whole month to come up with that comeback? 🤣😂🤣😂Just proves my point..