Treaty for a Lost City

The Sino-British Joint Declaration was signed in 1984 and transferred control of Hong Kong to the People''s Republic of China from the 1st July 1997. This sets the scene for the establishment of the Special Administrative Region (SAR) in Hong Kong, which has been at the heart of the civil unrest in 2019-2020, culminating in the National Security Law on 30 June 2020. In the 25th anniversary year of...