In Retrospect: The Sino-British Joint Declaration, signed in 1984

The Sino-British Joint Declaration was a treatybetween the governments of the United Kingdom and People’s Republic of China signed in 1984 setting the conditions in which Hong Kong was transferred to Chinese control and for the governance of the territory after 1 July 1997.Hong Kong had been a colony of the British Empiresince 1842 after the First Opium War and its territory was expanded on two