Hong Kong - Handover ceremony
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- (30 Jun 1997) T/I: 10:33:46
The British flag, the Union Jack, was lowered for the last time in the colony of Hong Kong on Monday night (30/6), just hours before the handover of the territory to China.
Among those attending the farewell ceremony was British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US secretary of state Madeleine Albright.
Ignoring constant rain and high humidity, hundreds of participants presented a show that was colourful and musical, and that ranged from a traditional Chinese dragon dance and drumming, to British military bands.
SHOWS:
HONG KONG, 30/06
WS Parade ground at East Tamar,
Britannia in background;
crowd under umbrellas, man waves British flag;
band plays;
Top shot of parade ground and Britannia;
Margaret Thatcher arrives;
Martin Lee, leader of Democratic Party arrives;
British foreign minister Robin Cook arrives;
WS ceremony dragon dance underway;
Gun salute from HM Chatham;
Prince Charles and Chris Patten arrive in limo;
dancers;
Charles and Patten out of car;
Charles and Patten join Prime Minister Tony Blair and wife Cherie, Robin Cook on stage;
VS trumpeters;
MS official party;
MS drum players;
WS drum players and stage;
various musicians;
WS scene;
WS Britannia with skyline in background;
WS parade ground with skyline, colored lights on buildings;
Patten rises and walks to podium;
WS parade ground, crowds;
SOT Patten, "For hong Kong as a whole today is cause for celebration not sorrow";
Cutaway Tony Blair and Mrs Lavender Patten;
SOT Patten,"It has been the greatest honour and privilege of my life to share your home for five years and have some responsibility for your future. Now hong Kong people are to run Hong Kong that is the promise and that is the unshakable destiny";
Patten leaves microphone;
sits with Tony Blair;
WS skyline;
WS military pageant;
Black Watch soldiers enter arena;
CU Prince Charles salutes, Patten standing alongside;
band plays, "God save the queen;
Union Jack flying;
VS military personnel at attention;
WS scene;
Prince Charles approaches podium;
SOT Prince Charles, "The british flag will be lowered and British adminstrative responsibility will end. But Britain is not saying goodbye to Hong Kong. More than 3.5 million Hong Kong residents are British nationals, thousands of young Hong Kong men and women study in Britain every year. We share language and English common law. And thousands of Britons too, have made their homes in Hong Kong. The shared legacy of family and friendship, trade and investment, culture and history runs strong and deep. Britain is part of Hong Kong's history and Hong Kong is part of Britain's history. We are also part of each other's future. We are confident that the ties between us will
not only endure, but continue to develop";
WS flags and soldiers;
flag lowering ceremony;
piper;
flag being taken from pole and folded;
guns firing in air;
Top Shot 'Hong Kong' written in lights;
perfomers;
Prince Charles leaves;
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Patten 1997: “Hong Kong people are to run Hong Kong”
CCP 2020: “umm. hold our beer”
Hold our toy money(RMB)
Patten : "i SHOULD HAVE NOT said that"
British colonizers 1997: Hong Kong people are to run Hong Kong
British colonizers 2020: Carrie Lam isn't Hong Kong people. We must not allow Asians to run Hong Kong.
@@990426 i.e Yum See Chi !
@@annan7728 The governor now is the chief of Hong Kong police appointed by Beijing China.
Sadly we can’t go back and change the history...Hongkongers stay safe and hope for the best to come, justice shall prevail
This was not the actual ceremony. It was only a festive farewell. I designed the stages and the furniture for the actual Handover of Sovereignty Ceremony inside the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. It did rain all week. We had to cover the interior in plastic because the roof had not been properly finished.
I’ve been wondering why the guests and performers were let out in the rains. Wasn’t there enough time to fix the venue?
That’s amazing
I came here because of “my little airport 今宵多珍重” 香港人 加油
Me too
3:04 "Now, Honk Kong People are to run Honk Kong. That is the promise. And that is the unshakable destiny." yeah, right...
as a Hong Konger, i think it should be changed to Hong Kong people are to run *away from* Hong Kong
Hong Kongers are becoming 2nd or even 3rd-tier citizen under the ruling from CCP
No one wants to stay or what-so-ever
@@aieri1218 you were treated as low as dogs under British rule
@@aieri1218 Let those dumb youths run and destroy Hong Kong
Understandably, this is a sad day for everyone.
Not for the CCP
VIVA BHK!!!!!
sad for who??? colonial empires??
@Yo Yo * sad for royalist boot lickers
Sad for the British because they had to return what is not belong to them.
1997 : “Hong Kong people are to run Hong Kong”
after 1997 : Reality is often disappointing
@@annan7728 Elected the one by Hongkongers as it is now? Which Hong Kong do you refer to? Another planet? The top leader of Hong Kong (China) in our planet was just elected by 1416 of superior "Hongkongers" tho.
This is moment when real mens cries
Worse then the titanic movie because this happened in real life. My ancestors were from Hong Kong now it’s under communist rule which is worst then colonial rule.
@@Forbidden-Pre-Workout Really?? the so called communists forced opium on the people???
@Yo Yo China got powerful by getting rid of the opium pushers...
Lol this dude prefers being under British rule. What an idiot!
Ur cringe
Who is here in 2022 after watching The Crown?
Eu
which season is hong kong?
I didn’t know that was Prince Charles, damn
Biggest mistake in history
you were a mistake.
How?
Disbanding a colony is bad?
@@Remix2366 yeah now the people can’t even criticise their government without going to jail. Hong Kong is a police state now with hundreds of thousands of people fleeing every year
@@MrOasis316 and where do you get this information?
Top ten anime betrayal
Agreed
Who is here after watching “the Crown” season 5?
The beginning of the end.
The Crown brought me here
A bad day for HongKong!!!
What fitting weather
who would have thought this marks the downfall of a democratic Hong Kong RIP
It wasn't though. It was the start. HK was not democratic as a colony ruled by a governor selected by a foreign, unelected monarch. It is a democracy when it is run by the Communist Party of China, which represents and defends the interests of all the Chinese people. Longnlive the CCP!
Now Hong Kong is run by the police state. The same Chris Patten said 25 years after the Handover in Britain.
The UK is one of the biggest police states in the world.
One of the worst things we have done
a day that should never have happened
Basicly they were forced by the Chinese to do this.
I'm sure Patten did not give democracy to HK, comes to show that Agnes, Joshua and Nathan put words in his mouth!
I wonder if Tony Blair regrets this decision now.
Wasnt his decision
Is a sorrow 20 years after
Give.us.back..to.us.back.we
Can't believe they handed it over to Communists.
Its sad but HK broke by rubbish chinese government
The British had never promise democracy, they stole Hong Kong all thanks to Opium!
@@deedragongirl so what, rubbish CCP still broke hk as an international and freedom city
@@senchinglam9766 Fake news as usual.
@@senchinglam9766 Gotta keep barking for the incest regime. Good job dog
From the crown
I see Ukraine umbrellas.
huge mistake
Season 5 of the Crown 2022
Hong Kong separate from china at 1997..omg
All empty words as the British government does not back up Hong Kong enough after the National Security Law applied to Hong Kong.
This is when HK know they f up. Free Hong Kong! Britain save HK!
Sorry to say it but Britian is not a massive Empire or even a super power anymore however you have my greatest Sympathies, hopes and wishes.
As long as their free people on this earth HK will never stand alone
Love from UK 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
And thank god for it
The Uk has always found itself at odds against mighty foes, like that in Nelson's time...
Even if Britain can't do much, they'll continue to express their own opinions to the world stage.
The Americans won't let us
When we look back on the terrible days of colonialism… this is one of those rare instances where we see that it would have been much better to not give it up. For the people there most of all.
I assure you it was way worse under the British
@@Zachito15 you’re on meth my guy
@@Zachito15 what is an instance under british rule that compares to the scale of emigration and resistance that Hong Kong has experienced in the past 4 years?
@@halaburadayim so getting people addicted to opioids, bashing their culture and beating them for speaking Cantonese is better?
@@Zachito15 and somehow cantonese was more alive in hong kong then than it is now. come to think of it, all of the regional languages of china have been dying following the influx of mandarin-speakers into non-mandarin regions. that is quite similar to how the CCP is sending officers to live with uyghurs, against the latter's will, for extended undefined periods of time, and they're imprisoned for following their own traditions. or the organ harvesting of uyghurs and hui by the CCP?
Oh man the comment section is just a joke. So many people angry because Hong Kong no longer belong to the UK.
Real loyal boot lickers lol
It didn't belong, it was an autonomous region, that's the point
When I was born in Hong kong under British colony control. I only know Queen is my boss. I am citizenship of British. My travelling document was British passport(not BNO passport) before 1997. I don't know how my born British citizenship was transfer to China CCP citizenship after 1997. Did anyone knows how it works? Is U.K. and China CCP agreement were signed give up all Hong kong British citizen with Hong kong to China CCP government? Is the deal legally?
5:56 what a piper song
I'm looking for it too
It is sad to see this again. UK did a totally wrong decision again. It is the same as given Czechoslovakia to Nazi. However, UK repeat the same mistake again and again
Hchamti nchait
This still makes me cry, its like the tyranny of the British over the Chinese people has finally come to an end and Hong Kong is finally free
Lol
This is the most ridiculous post I’ve seen in my life. Hong Kong is gonna be increasingly controlled by the Chinese Communists, and then in 2047 …. Bye bye democracy
free to be taken by a dictatorship
PRC: I wouldn't say freed, more like, under new management.
@@pilotmix.2317 still more free under PRC management
I say we attack no matter the cost we must return whats rightfully ours🇬🇧🇭🇰
Lol what a silly notion. Britain couldn't attack China if it wanted to, never mind winning that attack. 🤣 Either way Hong Kong never belonged to brituan, nor did any other of the colonies in which you held nothing but contempt for the people.
@@saorisenapoblachta9772 That's not true.... Britain cared about the Falklands enough to go halfway around the world and kill a lot of Argentinians to make sure the penguin supply was maintained! 🤣 (Tell me a better reason that the Argentines invaded or that the Brits visited the Wrath Of Maggie on them for their temerity and I'll happily listen)
@@IanMadBrit the Argentines were perfectly justified in their invasion of las Malvinas. Unfortunately for britian, China is stronger then them in every way.
@@saorisenapoblachta9772 Keep believing that. . Britain owned the Falklands when Argentina was still a wholly-owned subsidiary of Spain, so if ANYONE had a justified claim it was Argentina's former owners.
@@saorisenapoblachta9772 At least back in the days, you don't get arrested and sentenced to 10years in prision for saying you hate the government
Go home Roast Beef
technoblade ❤
Wish people felt the same for Hawaii under US and British colonial rule but cry about a city that’s been apart of China for thousands of years 🙄
So you love the commuist party of china?
@@tailsprowerfan2729 So you love white supremacy and global fascism?
@@Zachito15 so hateing the commuist makes me a racist and fascist now then again what do expect form a danm communist lover
@@tailsprowerfan2729 sounds like you support occupation by Europeans. Kind of sad how you don’t use the same rhetoric to US occupied Alaska or US occupied Hawaii but good god the Chinese take back what’s rightfully there’s. Sounds like a white supremacist to me. Bet you cheered on the west for letting Nazis in after WW2
@@tailsprowerfan2729 lol my ancestors were the blue print for Marxism. Today capitalism has ravaged my community but you want me to support British racism? Piss off
You close your eyes and feel dizzy for a moment. “What’s that?”, I say? “Some alternate history where Hong Kong was handed over to the bloodthirsty Chinese? “Wha…” - you’re confused.
“Come on, let’s watch what actually happened”, as I load a new video. The screen stutters before Harrier jump jets come into view. A column of Chinese tanks, marching into the city on “handover day”, explodes into flaming embers as canister after canister of Napalm is dropped on them.
Royal Marine landing craft slam in to the beaches of Honk Kong. The video cuts to Li Peng’s head exploding during a speech in which he denounces Hong Kong sovereignty. “I can’t believe Tony Blair threw them to the lions” you say “Blair? Who’s that? Thatcher was in charge in ‘97”. The image of HMS Invincible, Illustrious, and Ark Royal sail into Hong Kong bay, Harriers screaming as they’re catapulted into the air above the city, Chinese MiGs and Sukhois spiralling and burning down.
“Thatcher would have never let THAT happen to Hong Kong! - are you mad?” “No, I suppose not…” you trail off and open your eyes.
Hong Kong is part of China.
The Communist flag flies across the city
Blair sold all our Gold Reserves
“But I thought the sun would never set…”
A tear rolls down your cheek
Everything good and old is dead.
Absurd ceremony.
?[3.126] And Allah did not make it but as good news for you, and that your hearts might be at ease thereby, and victory is only from Allah [EloiHeam Yehweh Holy], the Mighty, the Wise.
Endure laws to end, GREAT Victory = Immortality, no?. In His laws doth he meditate night and day.......not fulfilled. them days. Great Victory is?
YOUNG CHARLES....ONCE... A YOUNG AMBITIOUS FUTURE KING OF UK... NOW GROWING AS A WEARY, FOOL, GRUMPY OLD MAN... YET STILL MOMMY'S BOY... WELCOME TO MY WORLD 101... VANITY IN LONELY PLANET.
the last nail in the coffin for the british empire. Soon we will see scottish secession.
Ironic when Scotland was one of the founders of the Empire and had colonies of its own
God save The CCP 🎉 Hong Kong is Free 🎉
Which level of twat are you exactly
I bet they regret that.
Hope
Should of never given hong kong back to china. England should of said no.