The march of the world
The 25th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong to China
Audio 48:30
Activists disguised as political prisoners demonstrate against China's takeover of Hong Kong, July 1, 2018. (Illustrative image).
REUTERS/Bobby Yip
By: Chantal Lorho Follow
1 min
June 30, 1997: it's raining heavily in Hong Kong, the “port of perfumes” as it is called in Cantonese.
After 155 years of presence, the British bid farewell to their colony... Prince Charles made the trip for the occasion.
Handover ceremonies from Hong Kong to Beijing end at the Convention and Exhibition Center.
At the 12th stroke of midnight - we are then on July 1, 97 - Hong Kong is no longer a foreign colony, it becomes a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.
25 years later, what memories do the people of Hong Kong have of this historic moment?
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Guest:
Jean-François Huchet,
researcher, economist specializing in Asia and China in particular, president of INALCO, the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations, author of “
The environmental crisis in China.
Evolutions and limits of public policies
”,
published by Presses de Sciences Po in 2016.
Reporting by Florence de Changy in Hong Kong and Adrien Simorre in Taiwan.
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