# Alternate History: UK keeps Hong Kong

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-history-uk-keeps-hong-kong/812917>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [April 22, 2018, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-history-uk-keeps-hong-kong/812917 "2018-04-22T21:34:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-history-uk-keeps-hong-kong/812917/41 "2018-04-27T11:34:37Z")

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Not quite the scenario depicted in the OP but I’m currently reading _‘Pacific Nightmare: A Third World War in the Far East’_ by Simon Winchester, a 1993 novel about the then future hand-over of Hong Kong to China going less than perfectly.

Just thought s/he may find it interesting 🙂

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