香港的沦陷。中国的胜利和英国的背叛

香港的沦陷。中国的胜利和英国的背叛 1 版本

作者：Mark Roberti (作者)

来自Kirkus评论

罗伯蒂是《亚洲周刊》的前香港记者，他在过去几年里一直关注着中国和英国之间错综复杂的谈判，并对高度的外交欺骗和权宜之计进行了有力的叙述。

英国以为期99年的租约从中国手中接过香港，租约将于1997年到期。

但中国一直容忍这个高权重的资本主义前哨，与其说是由于租约的技术问题，不如说是由于她从中获得了大量的硬通货。

罗伯蒂和许多人一样，似乎认为英国有机会使香港脱离中国的魔掌。

但英国希望与这个共产主义巨人保持良好的关系，并不准备在香港问题上破坏它们。

他还将指责的矛头指向了香港自己的商业精英，他声称，他们希望以压制民主为代价与北京达成无争议的共谋关系：

"资本家和共产主义者的不神圣联盟"。

然而，一位名叫马丁-李的殖民地律师对撒切尔夫人和赵紫阳在1984年签署的条约产生了疑虑。

一国两制"，即一个与中国大陆结盟的民主香港的承诺，似乎是不可能的。

为了让香港的普通人发声，李嘉诚组织了对英国人的出卖行为的大声抗议。在这个过程中，他变得 "比省长更有知名度，比许多流行歌手更受欢迎"。

但支持民主的运动对最终的结果没有任何影响。

而这里有一些令人不快的事实，罗伯蒂似乎不愿意面对。

英国人是否真的 "强迫 "香港生活在独裁统治之下？

现实情况肯定是，香港的居民不再有权力支持他们的愿望了。

不过，阴谋的概念总是能让人更好地阅读，而罗伯蒂无疑很巧妙地向我们展示了一个阴谋。

唯一遗憾的是，他没有想出一个比可怜的老磕头的英国更好的反派。-- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. 保留所有权利。

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 The Fall of Hong Kong: China's Triumph and Britain's Betrayal 1st 版本

作者 Mark Roberti  (Author)

From Kirkus Reviews

Roberti, a former Hong Kong correspondent for AsiaWeek, has followed the convoluted negotiations between China and Britain over the last few years and has produced a formidable narrative of high diplomatic deception and expediency. Britain took Hong Kong from China on a 99-year lease due to expire in 1997. But China has always tolerated this high-powered capitalist outpost not so much because of the technicalities of a lease as for the huge quantities of hard currency she derived from it. Roberti, like many, seems to think that the British had a shot at keeping Hong Kong out of China's clutches. But Britain wanted good relations with the Communist giant and was not prepared to sour them over Hong Kong. He also points the finger of accusation at Hong Kong's own commercial elite, who, he claims, wanted a no- fuss complicity with Beijing at the price of suppressing democracy: ``an unholy alliance of capitalists and communists.'' A colony lawyer named Martin Lee, however, had misgivings, aroused by the treaty signed by Margaret Thatcher and Zhao Ziyang in 1984. ``One country, two systems,'' the promise of a democratic Hong Kong allied with mainland China, seemed unlikely. Giving a voice to Hong Kong's ordinary people, Lee organized vociferous protest against the British sell-out. In the process, he became ``more recognizable than the governor and more popular than many pop stars.'' But the pro-democracy movement has made no difference to the eventual outcome. And here there are unpleasant truths that Roberti seems reluctant to face. Were the British really ``forcing'' Hong Kong to live under a dictatorship? The reality, surely, was that the territory's residents no longer had the power to back their wishes up. The notion of a conspiracy, though, always makes for a better read, and Roberti is certainly deft in showing us one. A shame only that he could not come up with a better villain than poor old knock-kneed Britain. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.