Catskinner

June 30, 1997



The date is forever fixed in the memory of Hong Kong people.

It was on that singular Monday that Britain handed the Crown Colony over to the People's Republic of China.

The decision-making process leading to the change of sovereignty was often referred to as the Three Legged Stool.

But serious doubts were expressed and in 1987, with only a decade remaining before the world as Hong Kong people knew it was to change, a fourth leg appeared.

Instead of ensuring stability it posed a unique danger to the lives of five and a half million local inhabitants and set in train a series of devastating events which threatened to unleash global chaos.



Now on the 20th anniversary of this momentous event the question is asked:



Could what is written in The CATSKINNER really have happened?

30 iunie 1997 Data este fixata pentru totdeauna in memoria poporului din Hong Kong. In acea zi singulara, Marea Britanie a predat Colonia Coroanei Republicii Populare Chineze. Procesul decizional care a dus la schimbarea suveranitatii a fost adesea numit „Scaunul cu trei picioare. Dar s-au exprimat indoieli serioase si in 1987, cu doar un deceniu ramas inainte ca lumea, deoarece oamenii din Hong Kong stiau ca se va schimba, a aparut un al patrulea picior. viata a cinci milioane si jumatate de locuitori si a pregatit o serie de evenimente devastatoare care au amenintat cu declansarea haosului global. ?