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To fully understand China’s Hong Kong frustration, it is enough for the authorities in Beijing to realize that it is a living memory of a period of humiliation in their national history. Today, Hong Kong, an autonomous “special administrative region” within the People’s Republic, once formed a British royal colony, along with other land “leased” for 99 years in 1898. When the British finally left in 1997, they left behind a series of weak democratic and independent institutions, including the judiciary, after some clever diplomatic moves.