@@grayemn1409 UK is not the empire. The empire sprawled across the seas and the continents. From Egypt to New Zealand.The Empire ended with Hong Kong independence. UK is UK - United "Kingdom" not Empire.
Charles is the heir apparent. By law, he will be king on the moment the current monarch dies. The only exceptions are if he becomes Catholic (highly unlikely) or he predeceases the monarch.
@@j.4354 Churchill gave it away fighting a war, and a enemy that tried to work out peace with her. A enemy although powerful had no chance to invade england with the royal navy in the way. And a ally that took every advantage to dismantle the british empire and bankrupt her (Roosevelt). Churchill allowed it either because he was wasted half the time or because he couldnt make peace with the germans without knowing it would mean the end of his time in office.
na - they people should have had the choice, either join China, have independence or stay with the UK. After what happened in Tianaman Square i doubt they would have voted to join China. HK was so beautiful - now is gone.
Yeah sudden recommendation from youtube They should have just handed over it back to china formally for all the colonial crimes they did. Because of them now hk is suffering
i was like 6 months old when the change over happened, then my parents migrated to Australia. after talking to my parents about this, they said canada, US and UK handed out visa like crazy towards the end.
The same ceremony of lowering Union Jack happened in Tanah Melayu which now called Malaysia in 1957. That was the last time God Save the Queen was ever played not until Commonwealth game in Kuala Lumpur.
@@postitdude1 It was a glorious moment in history. China, the great saviour, liberated the city of Hong Kong from the British plague. Everyone in Hong Kong HATED living under British rule. Once the People's Liberation Army 🇨🇳 entered the city, the cheered and greeted them with joy. Democracy must be crushed. Long live socialism with Chinese and Confucian characteristics 🇨🇳 🇨🇳 🇨🇳 🇨🇳
Rudest people on earth. I had one experience with a restaurant owner who kept bugging us to leave " me just want your money". The taxi drivers are shit and also all other people please dnt go here it would ruin your trip. Go to korea or japan they are well mannered. Singapore and taiwan are well mannered also.
Al Mighty same here, as a half Australian and half Filipino. They racist rude shits to us and especially to my mom and her friends as there full Filipino. We went to a bar and the guy also begged us to hurry up and order because he said the “chefs need to go home and it’s almost closing time” then 20 mins later a Chinese or hongkongese couple come in and what do u know? The waiter served food to them and the treat the Filipinos there like we are all domestic workers and poor.. but u know they treat us bad but they won’t treat Japanese bad, because Japanese will destroy them.
Even though this event was completely symbolic as the real changeover happened during negotiations that took place in the 80s and then was gradually prepared throughout the 90s, this is still a powerful moment in world history. With the lowering of the Union Jack's the British Empire was finally laid to rest, and the flag of the PRC rose over the commercial center of Asia, foreshadowing the century to come. Initially things went really well for Hong Kong during the handover, however the PRC was slowly consolidating its power over the city behind the scenes, and at the beginning of 2020 threw all pretenses out the window and blatantly tore the handover agreement into pieces.
That's true! They didn't know HK would become a world class city now equivalent to NYC, London, Paris and Tokyo. Too bad when that happens the working poor cannot afford to live there anymore.
both you guys are right, more money came in to hong kong, with tyranny. like as my profile logo "New Conglomerate", and my nickname "New Republic", hope true democracy happenes in hong kong, and beyond there, entire china should be restored their democracy.
@@NewRepublic4137 That would be nice, but it's kind of hard to "restore" China's democracy when China has literally never had democracy. Unless you count Taiwan...
@@conorcorrigan765 prc is just a single party dictationship, so anykind of vote means nothing to them. other parties are just a decoration. i don't like something like that, it looks like, dictatorship happened in RoK decades ago, voted by not a citizen but a some guys parachuted by president, in stadium. a.k.a 'Stadium Vote'. still better then DPRK, but still, lots of tyranny happenes on there, 1984 should be real in few yrs later on there.
Daily reminder the British Army would've lasted five minutes before being ousted from Hong Kong - resulting in an even worse deal for the local population.
夏伟 Again it was a different day and age. The UK brought Hong Kong to glory and established democracy. The UK honoured it’s promise to return Hong Kong, China could have honoured it’s obligations rather than introduce tyranny over the people.
@@monarchist1838 such glory, they were second class citizens who couldn't go to parts of their own city cuz the brits wanted those to be white-only. I'll take ''chinese tyranny'' over colonial imperialism anyday.
I don't know what you mean, but it's a really great for China. Look at it now, they will create the first mega city by combining Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Macau. China will prosper with a greater economy than before.
@@haglasu1468 True, just look at America, go to another country to send "democracy" and kill the inhabitants. Who even care about democracy and humans rights if the economy works!
@@davidzhu3525 yea the british stole an unimhabited island from china and build a City in it. Now the city belongs to you somehow cause the Island its Build on is near your cost Hong kong rightfully belongs to britain.
If only they knew that 22 years later the citizens would storm the legislative chamber and hang the colonial flag back up. The Brits may not have been so keen to hand it over if they knew what the future held for Hong Kong.
Dee Nagara Yes and the HK rioters are preaching the luxuries their parents experienced under British colonialism such as overpopulation, opium and racism
@@elsonsti Hardly. CPC are usurpers. Hong Kong should've gone to Taiwan. The 99 year lease should've been nullified and gone back to British perpetuity it was under previously. Letting the CPC stop suckling off of Russia and giving them power of their own was an egregious mistake.
@@wanxiangchen2114 Ah, no. You either don't get the point, or more likely, you DO get the point but are intentionally lying. Most people in Hong Kong do NOT want to be ruled like sheep by Peking (I refuse to call it "Beijing" which is a communist-imposed term). And all they want to do in Peking is to plunder the resources that good, industrious Hong Kong producers have achieved.
@@wanxiangchen2114 How did they plunder it, when the average Hong Kong citizen makes 12x more than the average Red Chinese citizen? (The real Chinese government is based in Taipei, but I digress).
When will Vladivostok return from Russia ？ It is also lost under unequal treaty in Qing dynasty, but Chinese Communist party never dare to ask Russia return
@@cameronbeattie3087 Prior to the formality that was the 1707 Act of Union (the official unification) the English and Scottish had been making their own navies, armies and had their own Empires. Both were, for a good while prior to 1707, at peace with each other, allied militarily and economically and generally speaking, quite friendly. The religious turmoil and civil warring that had defined much of the previous 16th and 17th centuries, had begun to (comparatively) fade into a secondary concern for European powers. Empire building, exploration and colonialism, had by now in the 18th century, come of age. In other words, they had bigger fish to fry rather than kick the shit out of each other over which type of religious denomination of the same overall faith they belonged to. Religious aspects to war and some outright religiously driven sectarian conflicts would still rumble away even up until the 20th century. But in general, there had been a paradigmatic shift from theocratically dominated societies obsessed with religious loyalties and religious texts, and the general rise of secularism, science and enlightenment. For instance, when the 1st Duke of Marlborough marched with his English dominated army down to the relief of Vienna in his successful campaign against the French Kingdom and French Empire, to save the Holy League from being shattered should Vienna's defences fall, the regiments of redcoat wearing infantry he marched with, tricornes, red tunics, muskets and all, carried banners/flags of England and Scotland, and English and Scottish regiments. The Battle of Blenheim in 1704, was of course 3 years prior to the 1707 Act of Union and it would be easily done to make a historical error and anachronism, by giving the British soldiers a British flag of the flag of Great Britain (1707 design) Nevertheless, the mistake had indeed been made by artists later on illustrating the events, painting redcoats marching off to battle with the 1707 flag of GB. However, in all fairness, the English Empire (as it is often forgotten to have been prior to 1707) with the Scottish Empire to the North of course, was virtually the British Empire in all but name already, even long before the time of the Act of Union. Ever since Tudor times, the English had laid the foundations for what would become the British Empire, united at last. The colonisation e.g. Jamestown colony 1604, English reaching Bermuda even before that, English being in the Caribbean and sending ships to navigate the world etc. long before 1707, can't be ignored. The Falklands are also first encountered by England long before 1707. Being the dominant bulk of the united British Empire, the English part of that which had formerly been the English Empire, just went to the next level. As for Scottish Imperialism prior to 1707? Well, that is least remember of all I'd argue. Ultimately, most of their colonies failed due to diseases and they obviously could never match the scale of English numerical superiority and military capability on their own. However, Scotland would provide a really important range of positive additions and beneficial contributions, to the British post-Act of Union. British history is complicated, remember that.
@@Ussonan-Foderation2016 Na, its the fall of the tyrant and the rise of the great. Go and research about the British empire's horrible past. The British empire has enslaved millions of people in Africa, murdered millions of Indians in man made famines and massacres such as the jaliawabagh massacre, colonized half the globe where it exploited countries of their natural resources and stole 50 trillion dollars from India alone during British rule. The British empire has done so much horrible things such as slavery, man made famines, genocide, and theft in India, Africa and the Carribean.
@@jimchen5537 I didn't do shit bro, I'm not British. Hell, I'm not even European. Also, what language did you use to type that message of yours? Exactly. Anyway, why so mad bro? lmao
@@jimchen5537: "If you are not Chinese, fxck off on our domestic issues!" I am not Chinese and that is precisely why I will NEVER fuck off on Chinese domestic issues, because I believe in freedom of speech, unlike you bug-people. Keep seething. lmao
Hong Kong was promised greater freedoms and voting, but the Chinese never gave them this, Hong Kong was supposed to have the greater freedom until 2047 but the Chinese government is slowly closing the gap in 2013.
It is greater. Before 1997, there is no election. Now there is. Instead of whining like bitch, leave HK, like most people here. There was a whanker who bitching and swearing but still staying in that god forgotten place.
+Wei WANG The Brits tried to give elections in '87. China threatened to invade if they did The Brits tried to hold a referendum on Hong Kong's future. China threatened to invade if they did China is the reason you can make those boasts, but not for the reasons they would like you to think...
7:29 now the Hong Kong people have to start fighting to keep their freedoms...and now it’s 2019 and the crisis is more notable than ever before. I live in 🇺🇸 but I support the people of 🇭🇰 100%! Keep fighting! Don’t go softly into the good night!
@Ronald Xu Like the promise of respecting Hong Kong's sovereignty, free speech and democratic process, judicial affairs within their own borders, just to name a few..
@Ronald Xu It did and it set a precedent for China to sneak into their city. Carrie Lam is a pawn for the CCP, she clearly did not care about the democracy of her own citizens. Also it would have made more sense for Taiwain to take over HK for the 1 country, 2 systems treaty. Taiwan is the closest government to the original China-British agreement in the 1800s, as they exiled in the 1950s when the communists took over.
Not a HKer but me and my family were in HK during this time for vacation. It was pretty tense especially for Singaporeans who had business in HK like my father. Now its pretty stable but I hope HK could still maintain status quo w/ its own elected chief for political and business stability.
Hong Kong Island and Kowloon had been ceded to the United Kingdom *in perpetuity*. The control on only the New Territories was a 99-year lease. The finite nature of the 99-year lease did not hinder Hong Kong's development as the New Territories were combined as a part of Hong Kong. However, by 1997, it was impractical to separate the three territories and only return the New Territories. In addition, with the scarcity of land and natural resources in Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, the New Territories were being developed with large-scale infrastructures and other developments.
China did not recognize those treaty because it's imposed by force. Hence, even HK island and Kowloon must be returned to China, not just new territories.
I don't know why people keep saying that the handover of Hong Kong symbolised the "end" of the British Empire. The Empire never ended but actually transformed. It still exists today with its 14 commonwealth realms and numerous other territories.
This has to be the only time in history when democracy was taken from a population. 90% of the people of Hong Kong want to return to British. Let the people choose their rule!
Yep, British colonies are given quite a lot of freedom to run themselves. Plus most of them are very wealthy. No chance of this under Chinese rule, not at all. But Britain only had a 100 year lease on Hong Kong, which is why it had to go back to China in 97.
6:28 Prince Charles' face says everything at that point. He knew this was it. It was this day that History lost its greatest Empire. That the end for the British Empire was nigh. He knew at that point that this was a wrong move. A move towards the communist, dictatorial arms of China. He knew that Tony Blair was a bad man. His face really reflects the great sorrow the British feel about losing the Empire, and the great apology we owe to the people of Hong Kong. This was it... the end of three centuries of ruling the waves.
Chinese people didn't get the same rights as white people for the vast majority of british rule until the very end when the lease was almost up. We are glad hong kong got returned to our homeland. It's better that hong kong is run by asians again.
It's hard to manage a large country of 1.4 billion people but China has been going up and improving whereas Britain has been regressing. By 2050, China will be fully developed in infrastructure and already today have the tallest building and most high span bridges and the most world's most powerful supercomputer using chinese processors. They are the future economic superpower and Britain needs to know its place. www.theverge.com/2016/6/20/11975356/chinese-supercomputer-worlds-fastes-taihulight en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings
We need to save Cantonese! It would be great to see more language courses offering Cantonese, and to a higher level if they do. I think it sounds a much better language than Mandarin, and holds a lot of culture and history within it
Hong Kong was on a 99 year lease, which expired on 1 July 1997. China wasn't interested in renewing and warned the British that they'd take the whole territory militarily if necessary.
![BBC on Hong Kong handover 1997 [HD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/amjPt8X1JbA/mqdefault.jpg)
there is a period where neither China nor Britain own Hong Kong for 10 seconds
*The golden era*
When Hong Kong was technically independent.
Nah, it was just the ceremony, the handover happened on paper
@@ThePuma1707 yeah, that's how diplomacy works. But without the bells and whistles, would we even care for the pieces of paper?
@G-TYPE how does that work
With how dramatic this was you’d almost think this was like the symbolic end of the world’s most powerful empire or something...
Ert Gret it was the symbol of the end of the most powerful empire
C X your fun at parties
Isn’t it?
Except it was not, the UK is still a world power, with a huge economy, overseas colonies, and nuclear weapons.
the end of freedom in Hongkong
Queen Elizabeth I saw the beginning of the British Empire. Queen Elizabeth II saw the end of it.
Underrated comment
@@alantan9863 yeah!
@@alantan9863 yes really
Yeah the UK is getting split up
@@grayemn1409 UK is not the empire. The empire sprawled across the seas and the continents. From Egypt to New Zealand.The Empire ended with Hong Kong independence. UK is UK - United "Kingdom" not Empire.
This hits differently after Queen Elizabeth's death
Facts lol
Welcome, Hong Kong! The new special administrative region has been founded to replace former British territory in Asia, British Hong Kong.
What are you talking about? She couldn't even be arsed to show up at the ceremony, she just sent her son there and even he looks kind of bored.
LIZZIES IN THE BOZ
I'm really glad this footage is preserved. We need more 90s history around. So much that happened in that decade alone.
Times they were a changing. Good decade overall.
Not for us
*****
I guess, but tensions are still there
Not good for russia, Balkans, eastern europe but it was the peak of US hegemony.
@@KillerofWestoids not good for eastern Europe? We were finally free from communist regimes
I wonder if Prince Charles sings "God save me mum" when the national anthem is played.
The Fonz , That Would be funny,
Sit on it, Fonzie.
No, he just sings "...save The Queen" like everybody else. In the future when he is King, he will not be singing it.
...IF he is king..
Charles is the heir apparent. By law, he will be king on the moment the current monarch dies. The only exceptions are if he becomes Catholic (highly unlikely) or he predeceases the monarch.
The flagpoles had holes that allow for wind to be blown, which is why the flags were waving despite the ceremony being held indoors
Maybe like a ground fan
Oh yeah the wind drive flagpoles
智慧的发明👍🏻
Thanks for this info. I was watching them in previous videos thinking “why are the flying so weird?”
@@threeminuteshate These types of flagpoles are also commonly seen at the Olympics Opening Ceremony to keep flags flying while in the stadium
Me giving my homie the girl I’ve been talking to’s number after she said she likes him.
MOOD
😂
bruh lmao
Oooooof
Bros before hoes
this is truly a historical moment in history, i'm impressed that someone put this on here.
Yes
@@siyacer the madlad
End of an Era for one empire and the kickoff for a global superpower for another empire.
A funeral for the British Empire
# MORTE AO IMPÉRIO BRITÂNICO 😒
@@j.4354 Churchill gave it away fighting a war, and a enemy that tried to work out peace with her. A enemy although powerful had no chance to invade england with the royal navy in the way. And a ally that took every advantage to dismantle the british empire and bankrupt her (Roosevelt). Churchill allowed it either because he was wasted half the time or because he couldnt make peace with the germans without knowing it would mean the end of his time in office.
trex kiro And the free world.
A funeral for Hong Kong.
@@mattsmith1518 ok
1:04 - PM Thatcher
3:02 - Prince Charles, PM Blair
3:18 - Chairman Jiang Zemen, Hu Jintao
3:18 that man is not Hu Jintao, he is Li Peng
8:02 someone kissed the camera
Haha 😂
Lmao
its skipped
Smooch
RIP British Empire, this was the last nail in the coffin
+Zhang Zhuisui well Hong Kong was purchased on a 150 year lease and it ran out in 1997 so not really like other British colonial possessions.
the new terrirories were on a 99 year lease. Kowloon and Hong Kong island were not on a lease - they were just british territory
I dont agree. There was a written agreement that the territory would change hands.
na - they people should have had the choice, either join China, have independence or stay with the UK. After what happened in Tianaman Square i doubt they would have voted to join China. HK was so beautiful - now is gone.
+Zhang Zhuisui purchased in 1897 on a 100 year lease, gave back in 1997 after 100 year lease ended. Simplz.
Hong Kong 1997. Macau 1999. RIP British Empire and Portuguese Empire.
the British Empire is arguably still around
David Lu no, I mean British Overseas Territories
True.
As a US vassal state, yes.
Eh I thought they are just little island countries. Or you're from acient days maybe.
In the house, we also formally initiated a ceremony about the Handover of my Childhood toys to my Cousins as I leave for abroad. It was magical 😂
Now that’s something
Toy Story 3 (2010)
WELCOME ABOARD!, HONG KONG.
@@tadc345fan It's Germany tho
23 years later. The national security act has been passed. One country two systems has been cut short.
香港终于开始二次回归了！
A National Security Act was agreed upon in the handover agreement. The HK administration simply failed to enact one in over twenty years.
@@Fux704 Evidence? That's a complete lie. It undermines the basic law of Hong Kong.
We will stand with Hong Kong! The people there deserve to be free!🇬🇧
@@cricketman1322 Freedom to the Hong Kong! Freedom from the terror of communists!
The first line of the Chinese national anthem is "Arise, all ye who refuse to be slaves."
tothemoon Neither countries have slaves. China does this by paying their citizens with cents....
You don't even understand Chinese....
Yes. And They kill who refuse to be slave.
A country who enslave it's own people telling it people not being slaves...
WanXiang Chen says a slave
That satisfaction on Jiang Zemin's face.
succeed is the better word other than satisfaction.
Of course. He's remembered for that(one of his achievements).
@@alantan9863 it was not his, it belongs to Deng's credit, Deng is the one who negotiated with british PM
@@cnmajulah7917 ok. Let me rephrase this. He's the lucky chap to witness the reversal of Qing's misfortune.
@@alantan9863 whatever. Anyway, we dont like that toad face guy, who has created alot of corrupt cases.
Where girls cried: *jack dying in titanic*
Where men cried: 6:37
Literally 😕😞
F in the chat
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True
The jack being lowered
Who’s Here After The HongKong Protests
meh
Yeah sudden recommendation from youtube
They should have just handed over it back to china formally for all the colonial crimes they did.
Because of them now hk is suffering
Me
@@RAM-km8bx wtf do you even know what's happening? Chinese war crimes like gulags and stuff far exceed british ones
@@RAM-km8bx you are talking about the 19th century. I am talking about the 21st century.
i was like 6 months old when the change over happened, then my parents migrated to Australia. after talking to my parents about this, they said canada, US and UK handed out visa like crazy towards the end.
Jesse Holt people were calling Vancouver "Hongcouver" at the time.
I was 9 months old, but instead my family moved to Spain and I currently live in Barcelona
Your parents had made a correct decision
@@andrewyung6599 wrong choice
@@jblake6145 lamo so true bruh
6:38 - emotional. End of an era.
JOEL YANG why is that good? Just want to know your opinion
@@JOE-ft3gq you see nothing strange, that in China you'd have to use VPN and no access to the TH-cam?
I stood for the British anthem. I sat for the Chinese.
Ben Timpson the British empire was doomed from the start
A start of a new era
*top 10 anime mistakes*
This is china and europe ceremony no Japan in this
Yamamoto Isoroku r/woooosh
Maka Albarn r/whoooosh to you actually
@@oaaisjdujsi *_r/whoooooooooooooosh_*
@@mysteriousmuffin6017 I wonder why
If you play this backwards, it’s Hong Kong returning to its rightful place
i did it
U right there
stupid sahbi
Ugandan knuckles profile pic 🤦♂️
@@lee-lf4ewBeing a British colony was better for hongkongers lol
It’s more like a funeral than a ceremony...
Funeral of the British Empire
Funeral for Hong Kong 😭
飞赴俄 傻逼
I'm just curious... how does the U.K. feel about handing Hong Kong over to a communist government?
飞赴俄 啱啊
Seeing the Union Flag be lowered for the last time in HK with the national anthem being played at the same time. That's incredibly emotional for me.
Rosida Andriyana go to hell
@Rosida Andriyana Shameless theives.
Rosida Andriyana you dare! Bitch!
lmao imagine being emotional
@Rosida Andriyana It already has several times ;)
The same ceremony of lowering Union Jack happened in Tanah Melayu which now called Malaysia in 1957. That was the last time God Save the Queen was ever played not until Commonwealth game in Kuala Lumpur.
Everyone had a feeling the moment the British flag lowered: it's time to pack our bags and leave and no more trouble.
And thus the British Empire lies to rest.
DJ Saidez They still own several small islands in the Caribbean. They have people living there so.
@@ranelgallardo7031 and protesters in HK have been flying their former flag.
@@ranelgallardo7031 ft commonwealth of nations
@Rosida Andriyana dreaming? Its a dream come true!
They want Hong Kong minerals,,,farm produce.too
I remember watching this live on TV. Amazing moment in history.
It was a very tragic moment in history. Britain should have refused to hand it over or forced major democratic concessions.
@@postitdude1tragic, but for Britain, not for HongKong nor China
@@postitdude1 they couldn't do that because China forced the UK to give all of Hong Kong under limited freedom
@@postitdude1 It was a glorious moment in history. China, the great saviour, liberated the city of Hong Kong from the British plague. Everyone in Hong Kong HATED living under British rule. Once the People's Liberation Army 🇨🇳 entered the city, the cheered and greeted them with joy. Democracy must be crushed. Long live socialism with Chinese and Confucian characteristics 🇨🇳 🇨🇳 🇨🇳 🇨🇳
@@tailung9841 now everyone in hong kong hates living under chinese rule
6:37 Flag lowering
7:27 Flag Raising
Thank me later
Thanks
I see this as a perfect win!
@@bibekdas7449 ?
@@bibekdas7449 falling of UK
The handover ceremony was first broadcast on BBC One on 1 July 1997.
The death of a old empire and the birth of a new one
It's a rejuvenation of an Empire.
totalitarian dystopia
China has already peaked. China has been screwed by CCP.
@@ziyeren5509 Yeah, and the British Empire was Democratic?
@@ziyeren5509
And???
Poor Deng Xiaoping. This was the one event that he was determined to live long enough to see. He passed away six months prior =(
rip bozo real marxist leninists stay winning
deng midping … imperialists stay coping
@@walterclements_ imperialism is when you stop the british empire from occupying mainland china
damn y'all are so salty he was an actual decent chinese leader and a good man
@@yakko7737 “decent leader” “good man” dude sponsored pol pots genocide along with the us. he was literally a cia asset
9:16 That face when you realized you've just become unemployed. lol
I am sure his humble retirement to the House of Lords and Chancellorship of the University of Oxford cheered him right up.
Girls watching this: Ugh so boring
Boys watching this: *intense crying noises*
1997 : Soon we will have a flying car. Let's work hard for our survival.
2019 : Excuse me, boys. Anti-extradition bill? LET'S PROTEST!!!
1997: Excuse me sir. Flying cars is a thing: Helicopter
those ass licking bastards deserved to be shot to death!
@@naeagle1285 It's a dumb name to begin. Cars are what you *drive* to go to the airport to *fly* an aircraft...
lol I was dumb kid back then so ignore dat
@@conorcorrigan765 calm down
Whether under Chinese or British rule, I want to visit Hong Kong.
Welcome
Wilson Fisk you can come to Hong Kong anytime
Rudest people on earth. I had one experience with a restaurant owner who kept bugging us to leave " me just want your money". The taxi drivers are shit and also all other people please dnt go here it would ruin your trip. Go to korea or japan they are well mannered. Singapore and taiwan are well mannered also.
Al Mighty - you just have to one up the rudeness. You’ll fit right in.
Al Mighty same here, as a half Australian and half Filipino. They racist rude shits to us and especially to my mom and her friends as there full Filipino. We went to a bar and the guy also begged us to hurry up and order because he said the “chefs need to go home and it’s almost closing time” then 20 mins later a Chinese or hongkongese couple come in and what do u know? The waiter served food to them and the treat the Filipinos there like we are all domestic workers and poor.. but u know they treat us bad but they won’t treat Japanese bad, because Japanese will destroy them.
At 6:09 it sounded like he was singing.
Even though this event was completely symbolic as the real changeover happened during negotiations that took place in the 80s and then was gradually prepared throughout the 90s, this is still a powerful moment in world history. With the lowering of the Union Jack's the British Empire was finally laid to rest, and the flag of the PRC rose over the commercial center of Asia, foreshadowing the century to come.
Initially things went really well for Hong Kong during the handover, however the PRC was slowly consolidating its power over the city behind the scenes, and at the beginning of 2020 threw all pretenses out the window and blatantly tore the handover agreement into pieces.
FINALLY, a comment I can fully agree with.
Couldn't have said it more beautifully and more true myself
Awww what a beautiful ceremony, I’ll bet China will take *GREAT* care of Hong Kong and it’s people...
Terrible.
Yeah about that...
And it is taking a good care indeed
@@danielcarvalho9050 mission failed
It is
The (now) King of UK attended this ceremony so let that sink in.
they didn't know what would happen on hong kong...
That's true! They didn't know HK would become a world class city now equivalent to NYC, London, Paris and Tokyo. Too bad when that happens the working poor cannot afford to live there anymore.
@@numuves I think he was talking about the looming Communist dictatorship, but whatever...
both you guys are right, more money came in to hong kong, with tyranny. like as my profile logo "New Conglomerate", and my nickname "New Republic", hope true democracy happenes in hong kong, and beyond there, entire china should be restored their democracy.
@@NewRepublic4137 That would be nice, but it's kind of hard to "restore" China's democracy when China has literally never had democracy. Unless you count Taiwan...
@@conorcorrigan765 prc is just a single party dictationship, so anykind of vote means nothing to them. other parties are just a decoration.
i don't like something like that, it looks like, dictatorship happened in RoK decades ago, voted by not a citizen but a some guys parachuted by president, in stadium. a.k.a 'Stadium Vote'. still better then DPRK, but still, lots of tyranny happenes on there, 1984 should be real in few yrs later on there.
Would love to see The Crown's take on this - November next year.
We do
The British HK flag is so cute. That mini Union Jack :D
Well it's not uncommon. Australia, NZ, Hawaii, etc.
"cute"...
Malaysia had that kind of flag too, before
australia and nz still have union jack on their flag
@@blablabubles Hawaii?
Daily reminder the British Army would've lasted five minutes before being ousted from Hong Kong - resulting in an even worse deal for the local population.
It would've ended in thermonuclear warfare which is certainly not beneficial.
@@MrRooibos123 Nato isn't going to risk it for a small tiny piece of land that was destined to be part of China's anyway.
@@DrFish547 Hong Kong doesn't even want to be a part of China.
Maarten they have no other choice
@@maarten9272 CCP weren't interested in asking Hongkongers opinions anyway they just wanted to show off their evil presence
The China that received Hong Kong was not the same China that ceded the territory to Britain. The people should have been asked for their future
What if Taiwan got Hong Kong?
Monarchist 18 when uk took up the city they didn’t ask the people either.
CaptainX that would have been interesting
夏伟 Again it was a different day and age. The UK brought Hong Kong to glory and established democracy. The UK honoured it’s promise to return Hong Kong, China could have honoured it’s obligations rather than introduce tyranny over the people.
@@monarchist1838 such glory, they were second class citizens who couldn't go to parts of their own city cuz the brits wanted those to be white-only. I'll take ''chinese tyranny'' over colonial imperialism anyday.
I’m deeply touched and I only have two words: Bing chilling.
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This might be one of the worst diplomatic decision in the 90s
So was the whole "let's dismantle the British Empire" vibe after WW2 kinda f-cked up half the globe didn't it
Austin Dreyer The 90s?.The original decision was taken in the 80s.
The decision was made in 1898
@@Vinnicombe1 no it wasn't.
@@arnold3768 the original lease was 100 years
the handover of Hong Kong was supposed to mark a new era for the territory
look at it now (this can be taken in a good or bad perspective)
I don't know what you mean, but it's a really great for China. Look at it now, they will create the first mega city by combining Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Macau. China will prosper with a greater economy than before.
@@banban8481 In that perspective yes, in a freedom and democracy one, not so much.
@@banban8481 Yeah... Who cares about democracy and human rights if the economy works
@@haglasu1468 True, just look at America, go to another country to send "democracy" and kill the inhabitants. Who even care about democracy and humans rights if the economy works!
@@haglasu1468 if u screw the population too bad economy will be affected as well
Genuinely upsetting. Hong Kong should’ve been given a chance to vote, in fact to this day they still do
54Nt1460CD no
the vote happened after the Falklands war and the handover happened in hope that China would become more democratic and capitalist
They've never had that right and China, HK is a part, is not a Western democracy. If HK is demanding the whole of China change, that's a tall order.
@@davidzhu3525 yea the british stole an unimhabited island from china and build a City in it.
Now the city belongs to you somehow cause the Island its Build on is near your cost
Hong kong rightfully belongs to britain.
Love all my brothers and sisters in Hong Kong. Wish you guys the best of luck.
If only they knew that 22 years later the citizens would storm the legislative chamber and hang the colonial flag back up. The Brits may not have been so keen to hand it over if they knew what the future held for Hong Kong.
You know nothing，Britain never ”keen” to hand over Hong Kong, but they have to
賴清德 好好干，搞垮台湾就靠你了
And hold pro-democracy protests with 2+ million people attending.
If they hadn't handed it over it would have been illegal and caused a massive war, so yeah.
站起来吧。跪久了你
20 years later:
Hong Kong: Britain take me back
UK👎
The British NEVER promised the Hong Kongers Democracy!
Dee Nagara Yes and the HK rioters are preaching the luxuries their parents experienced under British colonialism such as overpopulation, opium and racism
A funeral for an old superpower and a birth of a new superpower
recover of old superpower not birth
@@elsonsti Hardly. CPC are usurpers. Hong Kong should've gone to Taiwan. The 99 year lease should've been nullified and gone back to British perpetuity it was under previously. Letting the CPC stop suckling off of Russia and giving them power of their own was an egregious mistake.
Hong Kong is built on friendship and cooperation. May God Bless Great Britain🇬🇧 respect from Hong Kong🇭🇰
Looked like Prince Charles was crying at the end
bro people really be sayin "freedom of Hong Kong" and "British Empire" i the same sentence
😂
After all these years I'm still reary-eyed Such a huge bit of history I was part of. I just wish I could turn back time
Why? The British Empire was the most brutal and exploitative empire in history.
@@masterofalltrades_ still better than Chinese rule tho
@@cavstro211 A typical slave in feudal times.
@@cavstro211 no the chineese will never reach the brutality of what the British did in one month in africa
@@justamoroccandude2588 true
Betcha a million people on the streets of Hong Kong are currently cussing at this happening...
@@wanxiangchen2114 Ah, no. You either don't get the point, or more likely, you DO get the point but are intentionally lying. Most people in Hong Kong do NOT want to be ruled like sheep by Peking (I refuse to call it "Beijing" which is a communist-imposed term). And all they want to do in Peking is to plunder the resources that good, industrious Hong Kong producers have achieved.
@@wanxiangchen2114 hey chinese man, nothing happened on Tianmen square 1989.
@@wanxiangchen2114 How did they plunder it, when the average Hong Kong citizen makes 12x more than the average Red Chinese citizen? (The real Chinese government is based in Taipei, but I digress).
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Lmao. Nice joke
Well it made me cry
To the British Anthem, I gave a sad British salute, and to the Chinese Anthem, I gave a proud Chinese salute because I like both UK and China.
Jian Zemin was a great Leader, he took back Hong Kong & Makao, and revived the friendship between our Countries! 🇷🇺❤🇨🇳
When will Vladivostok return from Russia ？ It is also lost under unequal treaty in Qing dynasty, but Chinese Communist party never dare to ask Russia return
Sadly, it only took 2 years for the Hong Kong police to adopt the Chinese goosestep over their traditional British style of marching.
bring order out of chaos
British people have beutiful life in Hong Kong, They never wanted to return Hong Kong to Chinese government.
RIP British Empire 1496-July 1, 1997
Not really since Great Britain didn’t exist until 1707
CZGFD um...Denmark owns the Faroe Islands, not Britain
@@cameronbeattie3087 Prior to the formality that was the 1707 Act of Union (the official unification) the English and Scottish had been making their own navies, armies and had their own Empires. Both were, for a good while prior to 1707, at peace with each other, allied militarily and economically and generally speaking, quite friendly.
The religious turmoil and civil warring that had defined much of the previous 16th and 17th centuries, had begun to (comparatively) fade into a secondary concern for European powers. Empire building, exploration and colonialism, had by now in the 18th century, come of age.
In other words, they had bigger fish to fry rather than kick the shit out of each other over which type of religious denomination of the same overall faith they belonged to. Religious aspects to war and some outright religiously driven sectarian conflicts would still rumble away even up until the 20th century. But in general, there had been a paradigmatic shift from theocratically dominated societies obsessed with religious loyalties and religious texts, and the general rise of secularism, science and enlightenment.
For instance, when the 1st Duke of Marlborough marched with his English dominated army down to the relief of Vienna in his successful campaign against the French Kingdom and French Empire, to save the Holy League from being shattered should Vienna's defences fall, the regiments of redcoat wearing infantry he marched with, tricornes, red tunics, muskets and all, carried banners/flags of England and Scotland, and English and Scottish regiments. The Battle of Blenheim in 1704, was of course 3 years prior to the 1707 Act of Union and it would be easily done to make a historical error and anachronism, by giving the British soldiers a British flag of the flag of Great Britain (1707 design) Nevertheless, the mistake had indeed been made by artists later on illustrating the events, painting redcoats marching off to battle with the 1707 flag of GB.
However, in all fairness, the English Empire (as it is often forgotten to have been prior to 1707) with the Scottish Empire to the North of course, was virtually the British Empire in all but name already, even long before the time of the Act of Union. Ever since Tudor times, the English had laid the foundations for what would become the British Empire, united at last.
The colonisation e.g. Jamestown colony 1604, English reaching Bermuda even before that, English being in the Caribbean and sending ships to navigate the world etc. long before 1707, can't be ignored.
The Falklands are also first encountered by England long before 1707. Being the dominant bulk of the united British Empire, the English part of that which had formerly been the English Empire, just went to the next level.
As for Scottish Imperialism prior to 1707? Well, that is least remember of all I'd argue. Ultimately, most of their colonies failed due to diseases and they obviously could never match the scale of English numerical superiority and military capability on their own. However, Scotland would provide a really important range of positive additions and beneficial contributions, to the British post-Act of Union.
British history is complicated, remember that.
@Joseph Stalin Also Rot In Hell Soviet Union lol. You will not be missed.
@@user-ou4ez6ne8v So... Watching Sherlock makes me a bad guy?
Amazing discipline. Props to the honor guards!
커리안?
@@m-hqxio7783 안녕하세요
@keemochee No, Hong Kong is better with China, nothing else. China is the saviour of Hong Kong 🇨🇳🐉🇭🇰
@keemochee 中华人民共和国万岁！🇨🇳 🇨🇳 🇨🇳 🇨🇳
@@tailung9841 중화민국 만세! 🇹🇼🇹🇼
I can't stop crying. Long live Hong Kong😔
Don't cry because it happened. Smile because it's over
Hopefully this will be true about China's rule of Hong Kong. Rather sooner than later
Darkest day of human history.
you can't even represent your family, how can you represent human being? China is the hope 🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳
@@zhua2964 You can't even represent your Communist Party. China is a misfortune.
@@kuomintangno.1854 *Clown to clown communication*
this is really emotional, when the British and British-Hong Kong flag were lowered i felt sadness and loss, and i wasn't even born at the time.
I felt joy and happiness
A colonial iron fist to the iron fist of a dictatorship.
@@insertsomethingfuni2617 Politics is a science of lesser evils. And China is a lesser evil in this situation.
The fall of a great and the rise of a tyrant
@@Ussonan-Foderation2016 Na, its the fall of the tyrant and the rise of the great. Go and research about the British empire's horrible past. The British empire has enslaved millions of people in Africa, murdered millions of Indians in man made famines and massacres such as the jaliawabagh massacre, colonized half the globe where it exploited countries of their natural resources and stole 50 trillion dollars from India alone during British rule. The British empire has done so much horrible things such as slavery, man made famines, genocide, and theft in India, Africa and the Carribean.
And so the sun finaly set on the glorius empire of Britannia...
Rest in Peace.
Empire?! WHAT?? An "empire" that only controlled a bunch of f**ng PORTS! 🙄🤦♂️ It's ridiculous to be called an empire.
British pirates stole that phrase first used for the greater Spanish Empire.
@@dh1.369 You should look at the map of the British empire in its peak.
@@yingyuanliu8664 Agree
Funeral for Hong Kong. Exodus to the British Empire started in 2020.
I don't understand. You said peoples are leaving hong kong and going to UK or it's dependences?
@@mightybrazilsempire5316 Of course. Who can live under the police state of communist China where arrests can be made at any moment and anywhere ?
I was born in 1988. It's wild how much has changed since then.
I bet Mao Was laughing in his grave when the british handed hong kong back!
+49er WildCat Yeah, he is laughing that the UK has grown into a bunch of soft, cuckold pussies.
He doesn't have a grave. His body is preserved and on display.
all Chinese and their ancestors are laughing, which include Mao, for sure XD
Also, He will be laughing When Taiwan is back.
@@kreteshi9788 Be respectful please
Hong Kong is Hong Kong
Truly a dark day in the history of Hong Kong.
Said by the invader who killed billions of people all around the world. Britain is the biggest demon in human history.
@@jimchen5537 I didn't do shit bro, I'm not British. Hell, I'm not even European. Also, what language did you use to type that message of yours? Exactly. Anyway, why so mad bro? lmao
@@Rishi123456789 If you are not Chinese, fxck off on our domestic issues!
@@jimchen5537: "If you are not Chinese, fxck off on our domestic issues!"
I am not Chinese and that is precisely why I will NEVER fuck off on Chinese domestic issues, because I believe in freedom of speech, unlike you bug-people. Keep seething. lmao
@Quality View You are correct. The West is better than China. The West is the best! 😎
and here we are, at the peak of the hong kong protests...in 2019
港人乱港 高度自乱
Zoe I prefer the disease, before the communist I'm cuban
shame on you
@La Vie En Rose there is no jewish influence in hk, only china elites so there will be no liberal thoughts
Yup, seems the Brits just couldn't let go.
Hong Kong was promised greater freedoms and voting, but the Chinese never gave them this, Hong Kong was supposed to have the greater freedom until 2047 but the Chinese government is slowly closing the gap in 2013.
It is greater. Before 1997, there is no election. Now there is. Instead of whining like bitch, leave HK, like most people here. There was a whanker who bitching and swearing but still staying in that god forgotten place.
Wei WANG
How's your job at the 50 cent brigade?
CAMJAYFS9 is that all you care about? 50cents? you fucking low life loser
I don't care
+Wei WANG
The Brits tried to give elections in '87. China threatened to invade if they did
The Brits tried to hold a referendum on Hong Kong's future. China threatened to invade if they did
China is the reason you can make those boasts, but not for the reasons they would like you to think...
And this is how the British Empire collapsed.
This wasn't just a funeral for the British Empire in general. This was a funeral for democracy in Hong Kong in particular.
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It is a pity that Deng Xiaoping did not live long enough to attend this ceremony. He died less than 5 months before the handover ceremony.
6:45 My heart sank in a way seeing that flag being raised down. That must of have been a horrible feeling.
For British-yes. For Chinese- a magnificent success
@@GM-kp7yw i dont know why i felt so hurt to see this as a chinese
@@GM-kp7yw For the Citizens of Hong Kong: a handover of the child by the wicked step mother to the abusive, drug-addicted birth mother.
"Raised down"...lowered?
@@GM-kp7yw And for people in Hong Kong: a tragedy and the end of their political freedoms.
7:29 now the Hong Kong people have to start fighting to keep their freedoms...and now it’s 2019 and the crisis is more notable than ever before. I live in 🇺🇸 but I support the people of 🇭🇰 100%! Keep fighting! Don’t go softly into the good night!
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u know nothing
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Well said man
Free Thinker Man, you need to be there to support. Do not just think and speak like that crooked Hillary Clinton.
It's so sad that china didn't keep up to his promises
Hong Kong citizens hate china lol
What did they expect? A communist country would never keep its promises
China is a snake
@Ronald Xu Like the promise of respecting Hong Kong's sovereignty, free speech and democratic process, judicial affairs within their own borders, just to name a few..
@Ronald Xu It did and it set a precedent for China to sneak into their city. Carrie Lam is a pawn for the CCP, she clearly did not care about the democracy of her own citizens. Also it would have made more sense for Taiwain to take over HK for the 1 country, 2 systems treaty. Taiwan is the closest government to the original China-British agreement in the 1800s, as they exiled in the 1950s when the communists took over.
Not a HKer but me and my family were in HK during this time for vacation. It was pretty tense especially for Singaporeans who had business in HK like my father. Now its pretty stable but I hope HK could still maintain status quo w/ its own elected chief for political and business stability.
HK must be a nation of it's own.
well this comment dipped
hk‘s CE was never elected by the hk people
Do people not understand England did not own Hong Kong it was a lease and once that lease was up they had to hand it back over
Hong Kong Island and Kowloon had been ceded to the United Kingdom *in perpetuity*. The control on only the New Territories was a 99-year lease. The finite nature of the 99-year lease did not hinder Hong Kong's development as the New Territories were combined as a part of Hong Kong. However, by 1997, it was impractical to separate the three territories and only return the New Territories. In addition, with the scarcity of land and natural resources in Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, the New Territories were being developed with large-scale infrastructures and other developments.
@WRECKLESS SHOGUN be silent you Yankee obeying dog
China did not recognize those treaty because it's imposed by force. Hence, even HK island and Kowloon must be returned to China, not just new territories.
WRECKLESS SHOGUN u can not just claim you the true heir right? U need to earn that shit bro...
@WRECKLESS SHOGUN 你说你妈呢
I don't know why people keep saying that the handover of Hong Kong symbolised the "end" of the British Empire. The Empire never ended but actually transformed. It still exists today with its 14 commonwealth realms and numerous other territories.
The most british thing ive read today
@@svenasmussen8745 Funny thing is, I'm not even British
Almost its territories are just small islands with very low population .
All those commonwealth are only in name , the queen is merely a symbolic head. All the rest are tiny islands. They have no proper overseas territory
Hard to watch this the day after the Queen died 😢🇬🇧🏴
This has to be the only time in history when democracy was taken from a population. 90% of the people of Hong Kong want to return to British. Let the people choose their rule!
Even if they choose to be independent
HK has never had its democracy
+Tn7mu3 i'm not from hong kong but i 100% agree with you
+Tn7mu3 *Germany 1933*
But, yes. HK and the rest of the Commonwealth would be better of under British Rule.
Yep, British colonies are given quite a lot of freedom to run themselves. Plus most of them are very wealthy. No chance of this under Chinese rule, not at all.
But Britain only had a 100 year lease on Hong Kong, which is why it had to go back to China in 97.
The British Anthem was such a melody in that moment
I know right, I've said this before. The UK national anthem has the most emotional and beautiful melody of any national anthem on the planet.
The promise is broken now...
Now just "one country, one system..."
It's none of your business.
Birth of the British Empire: November 1497
Death of the British empire: July 1 1997
usa killed the first british empire from 1497 to 1783 youre talking about 2nd british empire from 1783 to 1997
I've never cryed so much seeing this
@@zhua2964 Britain is the legitimate ruler of Hong Kong
@@pix3lpancake 🤣
@@zhua2964 This is just cynic
@@pix3lpancake Hong Kong is the legitamate ruler of Hong Kong and should become its own seperate state known as the Based Republic of Hong Kong
@@pix3lpancake then send the military, your teethless army won't get a chance against PLA😂
6:28
Prince Charles' face says everything at that point. He knew this was it. It was this day that History lost its greatest Empire. That the end for the British Empire was nigh. He knew at that point that this was a wrong move. A move towards the communist, dictatorial arms of China. He knew that Tony Blair was a bad man. His face really reflects the great sorrow the British feel about losing the Empire, and the great apology we owe to the people of Hong Kong. This was it... the end of three centuries of ruling the waves.
+Scott Mairs empire was long dead by this point,this was the final thumpfrom the dead horse being beaten.
Chinese people didn't get the same rights as white people for the vast majority of british rule until the very end when the lease was almost up. We are glad hong kong got returned to our homeland.
It's better that hong kong is run by asians again.
i dont think hong kong feels the same way
It's hard to manage a large country of 1.4 billion people but China has been going up and improving whereas Britain has been regressing. By 2050, China will be fully developed in infrastructure and already today have the tallest building and most high span bridges and the most world's most powerful supercomputer using chinese processors. They are the future economic superpower and Britain needs to know its place.
www.theverge.com/2016/6/20/11975356/chinese-supercomputer-worlds-fastes-taihulight
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings
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Hong Kong was built by the British. Thats why its worth anything to give up.
This is the funeral of the British Empire.
How? the UK still has several overseas territories in the world, and the queen is still the head of state of several countries.
it was a really important time but why didnt they use a better camera
Because it was 1997
HD cameras or Flat Screen TVS didnt exist in 1997
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We need to save Cantonese!
It would be great to see more language courses offering Cantonese, and to a higher level if they do. I think it sounds a much better language than Mandarin, and holds a lot of culture and history within it
The brits sacrificed lives to keep a few rocks off the coast of Argentina, but gave up the lady remaining jewel of the empire
Hong Kong was on a 99 year lease, which expired on 1 July 1997. China wasn't interested in renewing and warned the British that they'd take the whole territory militarily if necessary.
Fun fact: Hong Kong was a lease in 1897