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ClumsyPilot
on Oct 4, 2024
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UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Maur...
They said basically the same thing about HongKong. You can’t predict political landscape in 100 years
Yeul
on Oct 4, 2024
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The Chinese negotiators for Kowloon deliberately settled on 99 years. Probably because they knew they'd be lynched by the Chinese public otherwise. It was not a mistake made by the British they just couldn't get a better deal.
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