ok i have this coin that on the edges is like curvy like ~ but more deeper, and on the front is queen Elizabeth 2nd but on the back it says Hong Kong, please tell me what this is im very confused!. Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: To add some details the coin is a 2 Hong Kong Dollars coin, still valid today ( face value is 0!.25- 026 USD: you need 7!.8 HKD for 1 USD) also to make the record straight: The history of Hong Kong listed above is so biased that even Queen Victoria will have given a more open one!. In 1897 Britain rented for 100 years Kowloon and later the part north to Kowloon (and current new territories)!. 100 years later, Britain willingly gave Hong Kong back, including the smaller original colony of Hong Kong island, because it was illogical to give back the rented 90 % of a territory and keep the stolen 10%!. Hong Kong was a colony and never a democracy: even when England was democratic you, as a local, was not allowed to vote in Hong Kong : elections and a kind of democratic rules were introduced only by the last British governor Chris Pattern in 1990: 93 years after the "leasing" and 6 years after the restitution agreement treaty between Great Britain and China, at mid road in the restitution process!. That is really a late awakening of the democratic feeling of the British!. The mainland never adopted a single s!.it from HK laws, but agreed with British that, on the basis of a "Basic Law" substituting a constitution (because Hong Kong is a territory and not a country) Hong Kong will keep and make its own regulations (while China take care of foreign policy and defense only ) for further fifty years!. Just to say how communist Hong Kong is, the current Chief Executive (corresponding to a President or Prime Minister) is Sir Donald Tsang (appointed Sir by Queen Elizabeth) former chief secretary of the last British Governor!. The problem of Hong Kong democracy is not China : is that Hong Kong , since ever, is governed by an oligarchy of extremely rich tycoons!. They don;t give a s!.hit too about democracy: they just want to continue to control tightly their golden eggs hen!. Will Hong Kong remain a golden eggs hen!? nobody knows, but probably the only viable future for normal Hong Kong people will be a full integration with its historical region, Guangdong, and its historical half part in China, ShenzhenWww@QuestionHome@Com Hong Kong was a British Protectorate, in the British Commonwealth, (formerly part of the British Empire), until 1997!. In 1897 there was an agreement between China and Britain that Britain would give it up to China's control again after 100 years, and Hong Kong remained separate from mainland China's govt!. after their communist revolution, knowing that they would join as one again in 1997!. Under the circumstances, Britain TRIED to negotiate to keep Hong Kong, but mainland China insisted to keep the promise, just as they allowed Britain to enjoy the promise to have Hong Kong until 1997!. In 1997, the mainland China army and police rolled in, and made changes, like no more democracy, no more elections, etc!.!.!.Hong Kongers are always trying to keep their democratic ways!. As a consolation, mainland agreed to adopt some of the freedoms on the mainland that they saw in Hong Kong, but democracy and freedom are still on death row!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |