The Fall of Hong Kong: China's Triumph and Britain's Betrayal by Mark Roberti

Based on interviews with 150 men and women who played key roles in the secret negotiations for the handover of Hong Kong to China, and on U.S. State Department documents, this book uncovers the truth about the hand-over of power. In this book, Roberti explains how the British Foreign Office thwarted Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's effors to introduce democratic elections to Hong Kong; how British negotiators allowed an alliance of conservative Hong Kong businessmen and Beijing party officials to prevent meaningful democracy in Hong Kong; how the colonial government manipulated public opinion in Hong Kong in order to sway the vote in the British Parliament; and how Chinese security forces bugged the rooms of the drafters of the Hong Kong Basic Law. It also tells of the efforts of people like lawyer Martin Lee and his army of workers and students who take the risks in a fight against their political masters to secure a democratic future.