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Hong Kong: tracing conservatism

Categories: East Asia, Hong Kong (China), History, Politics

Dave and Stefan has another post on Hong Kong history. This time it is about Lord Palmerston, the Foreign Minister of Great Britain in 1839 when the United Kingdom embarked on the Opium War against China. His opinion has some similarity with today's local conservatives. [1]