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 After World War II in 1945, Britain did not want to return Hong Kong to Chiang Kai-shek and refused to allow Chiang Kai-shek to send troops to take over Hong Kong under Allied Commander MacArthur's Order No. 1.

After 1949, Britain was the first to recognise the People's Republic of China for fear that the Chinese Communist Party would cross the border and take over Hong Kong. Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai acquiesced to Britain's retention of Hong Kong because of the international blockade of the People's Republic of China and the need to retain Hong Kong as a window for foreign trade.

It was only after Deng Xiaoping insisted that the Chinese Communist Party could take over Hong Kong within a day that Britain reluctantly handed over Hong Kong, after Mrs. Thatcher's time, when Britain's attempts to retain Hong Kong after 1997 met with frustration in Beijing. During this process, the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan was not involved in the negotiations at all, and it was impossible for Britain and the Communist Party of China to involve the ROC in the negotiations, because Britain did not recognise the ROC's ownership of Hong Kong at all, and Chiang Kai-shek had given up Hong Kong as early as 1945!