Hong Kong marks 25 years since handover to China - BBC News

Hong Kong is marking the 25th anniversary of its handover from the UK to China.

For more than 150 years Hong Kong was a British colony but in 1997 it was handed back to China.

The question was how capitalist, libertarian Hong Kong would fare under Communist Chinese rule.

Beijing promised that Hong Kong's civil liberties and freedom - restricted on the Chinese mainland - would be preserved for at least 50 years, under an arrangement known as "one country, two systems".

At first little seemed to change, but in time China sought to exercise more control, leading to mass protests.

Recently a sweeping new National Security Law effectively banned dissent in Hong Kong.

Sophie Raworth presents BBC News at Ten reporting by World Affairs Editor John Simpson.

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