@@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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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!
@@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.
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.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
Dee Nagara Yes and the HK rioters are preaching the luxuries their parents experienced under British colonialism such as overpopulation, opium and racism
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.
@@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).
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
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
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.
Why did the UK not renounce the FALKLAND ISLANDS as it did with Hong Kong? Because Hong Kong was a rental contract from China and no one was injured by gravity, the British went to buy the rights of Hong Kong with British Pounds in the year 1950, under the British Administration, nobody fired a bullet at anyone. The economy was revived to a large extent thanks to the skills and capital provided by the refugees from mainland China, especially from Shanghai, along with the large amount of cheap labor. Simultaneously, numerous foreign firms moved their offices from Shanghai to Hong Kong. Thanks to a growth hitherto unknown, Hong Kong is transformed from an entrepôt trading site to a manufacturing and industrialized site. But the Contract said that Hong Kong would be returned in 1997. On July 1, 1997, the United Kingdom transferred Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China. In the Falckland Islands case, the Military Junta presided over by Galtieri, Videla, Menendez, Agosti, Macera, were like Patoteros, to take control of the Islands by force on April 2, 1982. If that In this case no British soldier attacked his Chinese counterpart, and surrendered with papers in hand Hong Kong to China had not existed, it is likely that England returned the Malvinas Islands to Pcias as Corrientes or Misiones or, Rio Negro or the rest of the Pcias, less Buenos Aires, the return had been made without hurting anyone seriously, only with Diplomacy and not with bullets. That made England's credibility worse on the members of that primitive In this case no British soldier attacked his Chinese counterpart, and surrendered with papers in hand Hong Kong to China , and precipitated the beginning of a War between England and we could say Buenos Aires, probably the Malvinas War was between ENGLAND against BUENOS AIRES, and not between England and Argentina as they appear in all the History books, generalizing and believing that the Porteños appear with the Citizens of the Province of Salta or of Formosa. The United Kingdom acknowledges that its claim on the Falckland Islands is controversial, but has no intention of discussing the issue of sovereignty, according to Professor Clive Schofield, expert in maritime disputes, of the University of Wollogon, in Australia. He says there is no comparison with Hong Kong, to which the United Kingdom returned to Chinese control after the expiration of a joint rental contract, in 1997. Why is the language between London and Buenos Aires more tense now? Pure politics, according to analysts. The deployment of William, the British prince, has added more drama, as well as the claims for colonialism and their respective aftershocks, and for the decision taken this week by the United Kingdom to send its new destroyer, Dauntless. But, they say, the real origin of this new revival of tensions is that Argentine politicians try to distract voters from the pain caused by inflation and the reduction of FOR EXAMPLE IN THE TEXTS OF THE YEAR 2016/17, the English write, that the relations between London and Buenos Aires are not friendly, but that does not mean that England ignores the Argentine Problems of the Chaco, as despising the Porteños. But the problem is also to know if Buenos Aires la Pcia is equal to Cap Federal or are not friends who live in Gral Villegas with those of Cap Federal? There is only one Return Option and it is the following 1-Buenos Aires that is an independent country of Argentina 2-Control of England on the income of the People of Argentina, separating those of Cap Federal. 3-The creation of a Wall in the Borders between Buenos Aires as a Separatist Nation from the rest of Argentina. 4-Creation of a Porteñ National Anthem and its schools with its Edcucative System 5-Let the Hero of your Country be an Assassin like Juan Manuel de Rosas and not the National Hero of Argentina José de San Martín. 6-Retreat of the monuments of San Martin de Buenos Aires to Corrientes, FLAGS, rosettes. 7-Prohibition of the Argentine National Anthem in Schools, Universities of Buenos Aires. 8-Creation of Petroleum Service Stations with Anglo-Argentine Flag in Pcias such as Misiones, Chaco, Sgo etcc of BIG NORTH zone in Argentine. 9-That Buenos Aires has its National Flag of Blue and Green and dress like that of the Selection of Buenos Aires, when it is another Country. 10-Not to admit the creations like Curriculum, System, Edi 1/2/3/4 in the States and to retire the Federal Law. And so it is very likely that the English return Falcklnd Islands to the Argentine Territory as the State number 23, not 24, because Buenos Aires would have another flag, another anthem. The English then will see as Ally to "Argentina · and not to" Buenos Aires "
Separate issue. The Falkland Islanders want to remain British. The British people are indigenous of the Falkland Islands. The entire reason that Hong Kong was given back was due to the agreement initially made. There has been no agreement with Argentina as it would directly violate the Falklanders' human right to self-determination.
No. Because China is much bigger and stronger adversary than Argentina. And Hongkong is harder to defend than the Isla de Malvinas When he was alive, Lord Mountbatten once said that he wouldn't let UK to give up Hongkong. But here we are today
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.
I heard that after the handover of Hongkong most of the British had left Hongkong in the same place where they came in. But I don’t know where and what that place is in Hongkong.
I have seen the military strength of the United Kingdom and China. They are very impressive. Even today, Hong Kong is still returning. It seems that it has been the 70th anniversary of the return of Hong Kong, China. It seems that
People say this is the last nail on the coffin for the British empire but don't mention Northern Ireland, or Scotland. They also don't mention how it and America are still empires and their capitalist classes still exploit other nations, regardless of whether or not they have them as territories.
Xingjiang, Mongolia, Tibet are not in the map of Ming dynasty, but China claimed that they belong to China just because they are once the colonies of qing. when will China give them independent ？
![BBC on Hong Kong handover 1997 [HD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/amjPt8X1JbA/mqdefault.jpg)
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Queen Elizabeth I saw the beginning of the British Empire. Queen Elizabeth II saw the end of it.
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@@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.
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
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
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.
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.
@@GenocideWesterners not good for eastern Europe? We were finally free from communist regimes
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.
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
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.
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
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
Lol 😂 Also we also made a ceremony of Handover of Tank (my cat) to another person 😂
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
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.
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
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.
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 ;)
Everyone had a feeling the moment the British flag lowered: it's time to pack our bags and leave and no more trouble.
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 UA-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
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
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
Love all my brothers and sisters in Hong Kong. Wish you guys the best of luck.
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
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
At 6:09 it sounded like he was singing.
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!
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.
Would love to see The Crown's take on this - November next year.
We do
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
The (now) King of UK attended this ceremony so let that sink in.
I’m deeply touched and I only have two words: Bing chilling.
bo
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.
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 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?
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.
*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
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
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
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
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
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.
Amazing discipline. Props to the honor guards!
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@@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! 🇹🇼🇹🇼
Hong Kong is built on friendship and cooperation. May God Bless Great Britain🇬🇧 respect from Hong Kong🇭🇰
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.
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?
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
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.
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.
Looked like Prince Charles was crying at the end
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Lmao. Nice joke
Well it made me cry
I was born in 1988. It's wild how much has changed since then.
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.
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
bro people really be sayin "freedom of Hong Kong" and "British Empire" i the same sentence
😂
Well, the "long to rule over us" part kind of works seeing as we held it for a good amount of time.
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
2:52 what song
Rest In Peace British Empire And Portuguese Empire.😫😩😢😭🥺😱😰😥💧💦☔️☂️
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
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
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
And this is how the British Empire collapsed.
น่าเศร้าที่ฮ่องกงได้หวนกลับสู่อำนาจของไอเจ๊กคอมมิวนิสต์แดกหมาพวกนี้ ฝันร้ายของชาวฮ่องกงโดยแท้
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😂
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
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
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).
Hong Kong is Hong Kong
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.
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
Rest in peace
British empire
I've always wanted to visit British Hong Kong.....
Interesting combination of Chinese and British cultures.
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.
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
I remember watching this on TV as a teenager
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.
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
A historic moment
6:04 is he singing
Hard to watch this the day after the Queen died 😢🇬🇧🏴
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
Why did the UK not renounce the FALKLAND ISLANDS as it did with Hong Kong?
Because Hong Kong was a rental contract from China and no one was injured by gravity, the British went to buy the rights of Hong Kong with British Pounds in the year 1950, under the British Administration, nobody fired a bullet at anyone.
The economy was revived to a large extent thanks to the skills and capital provided by the refugees from mainland China, especially from Shanghai, along with the large amount of cheap labor. Simultaneously, numerous foreign firms moved their offices from Shanghai to Hong Kong. Thanks to a growth hitherto unknown, Hong Kong is transformed from an entrepôt trading site to a manufacturing and industrialized site.
But the Contract said that Hong Kong would be returned in 1997. On July 1, 1997, the United Kingdom transferred Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
In the Falckland Islands case, the Military Junta presided over by Galtieri, Videla, Menendez, Agosti, Macera, were like Patoteros, to take control of the Islands by force on April 2, 1982. If that In this case no British soldier attacked his Chinese counterpart, and surrendered with papers in hand Hong Kong to China
had not existed, it is likely that England returned the Malvinas Islands to Pcias as Corrientes or Misiones or, Rio Negro or the rest of the Pcias, less Buenos Aires, the return had been made without hurting anyone seriously, only with Diplomacy and not with bullets. That made England's credibility worse on the members of that primitive In this case no British soldier attacked his Chinese counterpart, and surrendered with papers in hand Hong Kong to China
, and precipitated the beginning of a War between England and we could say Buenos Aires, probably the Malvinas War was between ENGLAND against BUENOS AIRES, and not between England and Argentina as they appear in all the History books, generalizing and believing that the Porteños appear with the Citizens of the Province of Salta or of Formosa.
The United Kingdom acknowledges that its claim on the Falckland Islands is controversial, but has no intention of discussing the issue of sovereignty, according to Professor Clive Schofield, expert in maritime disputes, of the University of Wollogon, in Australia.
He says there is no comparison with Hong Kong, to which the United Kingdom returned to Chinese control after the expiration of a joint rental contract, in 1997.
Why is the language between London and Buenos Aires more tense now?
Pure politics, according to analysts. The deployment of William, the British prince, has added more drama, as well as the claims for colonialism and their respective aftershocks, and for the decision taken this week by the United Kingdom to send its new destroyer, Dauntless. But, they say, the real origin of this new revival of tensions is that Argentine politicians try to distract voters from the pain caused by inflation and the reduction of
FOR EXAMPLE IN THE TEXTS OF THE YEAR 2016/17, the English write, that the relations between London and Buenos Aires are not friendly, but that does not mean that England ignores the Argentine Problems of the Chaco, as despising the Porteños.
But the problem is also to know if Buenos Aires la Pcia is equal to Cap Federal or are not friends who live in Gral Villegas with those of Cap Federal?
There is only one Return Option and it is the following
1-Buenos Aires that is an independent country of Argentina
2-Control of England on the income of the People of Argentina, separating those of Cap Federal.
3-The creation of a Wall in the Borders between Buenos Aires as a Separatist Nation from the rest of Argentina.
4-Creation of a Porteñ National Anthem and its schools with its Edcucative System
5-Let the Hero of your Country be an Assassin like Juan Manuel de Rosas and not the
National Hero of Argentina José de San Martín.
6-Retreat of the monuments of San Martin de Buenos Aires to Corrientes, FLAGS, rosettes.
7-Prohibition of the Argentine National Anthem in Schools, Universities of Buenos Aires.
8-Creation of Petroleum Service Stations with Anglo-Argentine Flag in Pcias such as Misiones, Chaco, Sgo etcc of BIG NORTH zone in Argentine.
9-That Buenos Aires has its National Flag of Blue and Green and dress like that of the Selection of Buenos Aires, when it is another Country.
10-Not to admit the creations like Curriculum, System, Edi 1/2/3/4 in the States and to retire the Federal Law.
And so it is very likely that the English return Falcklnd Islands to the Argentine Territory as the State number 23, not 24, because Buenos Aires would have another flag, another anthem. The English then will see as Ally to "Argentina · and not to" Buenos Aires "
Separate issue.
The Falkland Islanders want to remain British.
The British people are indigenous of the Falkland Islands.
The entire reason that Hong Kong was given back was due to the agreement initially made.
There has been no agreement with Argentina as it would directly violate the Falklanders' human right to self-determination.
Ivan Muller if I’m honest when I pressed read more I didn’t want a thesis
No. Because China is much bigger and stronger adversary than Argentina. And Hongkong is harder to defend than the Isla de Malvinas
When he was alive, Lord Mountbatten once said that he wouldn't let UK to give up Hongkong. But here we are today
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 love the way the Chinese soldiers march. The look as if they are happily skipping along 😂
U must be referring to the North Koreans
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
Free Hong Kong ✊
Fun fact: Hong Kong was a lease in 1897
This wasn't just a funeral for the British Empire in general. This was a funeral for democracy in Hong Kong in particular.
I play this in reverse
The English Gentleman the handover of Hong Kong from China to Britain
@@andreaduthie4507 i wish this was true
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
I heard that after the handover of Hongkong most of the British had left Hongkong in the same place where they came in.
But I don’t know where and what that place is in Hongkong.
And this lads, was the end of the Empire.
Not really they still has Canada, australia, new Zealand ECT...
Ryan lex it‘s the Commonwealth
@@AunknownMan still it the last of the what remain of the British empire
I have seen the military strength of the United Kingdom and China. They are very impressive. Even today, Hong Kong is still returning. It seems that it has been the 70th anniversary of the return of Hong Kong, China. It seems that
People say this is the last nail on the coffin for the British empire but don't mention Northern Ireland, or Scotland. They also don't mention how it and America are still empires and their capitalist classes still exploit other nations, regardless of whether or not they have them as territories.
Xingjiang, Mongolia, Tibet are not in the map of Ming dynasty, but China claimed that they belong to China just because they are once the colonies of qing.
when will China give them independent ？
Since im Confused was the Cerrmony inside or outdoor ?
It was indoors lol.