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Originally Posted by Ursus Maior
One big mystery I haven't solved in that thread of thinking is Hong Kong, though. Would the British handover the city state on 1 July 1997, if the war broke out just before and China has become an obvious ally of the USSR?
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I don't really think there would be any alternative. The handover had been agreed and I don't think that the British Government of that time would want to go back on an international agreement it had signed.
However even if that was the case I rather doubt that there would have been much the British Government could have done to stop the Chinese occupying Hong Kong - in the 1980's / 1990's the HK garrison was a reinforced Brigade, and it was gradually reduced in strength prior to handover so trying to hold on to the Colony and oppose a Chinese invasion would have been a fool's errand that would have caused the needless loss of many lives.
So I don't really see the British Government trying / wanting to delay the handover. If it was scheduled for five years down the line then maybe I could see it happening, but not when we're only weeks out.