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		baybal2 on Aug 8, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TSMC, Bosch, Infineon, NXP to jointly build semico... > Hong Kong belonged to China already, it just had a special status that was supposed to expire at some point Hong Kong was leased to the British Crown in the perpetuity.

Affric on Aug 9, 2023 [–]

This is a bad faith comment.

The new territories had a 99 year lease and in 1997 had more than 2 million Hong Kongers living there. About a third of the population.

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