The Falklands should be given back to argentina

We did it with Hong Kong a while ago, so why not do the same with the Falklands?

It was always British

Also you could have kept Hong Kong if you wanted to

No
Also, look at the distance mate

Yes read about it. It is legally British.

Because the majority of it's population is British.

HK also shouldn't have been ceded to China but that's tough when it's full of Chinese and extremely difficult to defend against a strengthening neighbor.

China is already subverting it and the Basic Law up and down.

American should give pearl habour back to the japs.

You mean bomb it again

Fuck Argentina and fuck white people.

Too late. They just move there now.

Where is your crown king nothing?

HK was leased to the brits for 100 years. The lease ran out.
That's why they gave it back.
Kinda like how Alaska was purchased from the Ruskies way back in the day because you wanted to be able to flank Canada.

Given back...Did they ever own it?

>tfw being brit

Actually they won it outright as part of a peace treaty. That superseded the lease but when it came time, the brits had become pakki faggots and just gave it back.

No, Hong Kong and Kowloon were British territory. It was only the New Territories that were leased, however without them HK was indefensible.

The great irony of course is that if Argies never invaded the Falklands in the 80s and instead spent 30 years pursuing diplomatic means of securing them, they'd have a decent chance of controlling them today. Most British people in the 70s didn't give two shits about the Falklands, and were used to their former empire ceding land. Argies could have spent 1/10th of what they spent on going to war and instead spent it on providing aid to the islands when there were storms, building embassies, trading and cultural exchanging with the inhabitants, etc.

After the invasion, however, Britain will never willingly give up the islands. Any PM who agrees to cede them would be basically making a declaration 'Please vote me out'. Almost everyone who lives on the islands has a dad or an uncle who fought in the war, and are staunchly anti-Argie

Or gave it back in good faith for good terms with cheap as sin labour market known as China....

So how did the brits come to own those islands?
Going to assume it has to do with that whole global trade thing they set up way back in the day.

Ignore OP, no true Brit would actually say this. Clearly a shill

Because we had a lease on Hong Kong, and the lease was up.

Maybe. It would have pissed off the chinks to no end, and they'd likely have closed the city off. Considering the entire point of HK, why would you then want it?

>full of Chinese
Full of Kongers who didn't want to be part of the PRC.

As tech advances the British will be able to control the Atlantic Ocean
They will be like the Water Tribe in Avatar. Don't make them give up water tribe status.

Antarctica

You're welcome

I think Gibraltar is more important issue and more similar to Hong Kong.

Seems crazy to just give it back. Crowded and expensive but it boggles the mind why britain gave it away. Too hot for me in summer tbqh

Only millennials in HK actually support an independent HK. The older gens all identify as Chinese. Democracy is a sham anyway seeing how China used autocracy to go from a subsaharan level communist country to the world's 2nd biggest power with first class cities in 30 years.

Most anons here probably never went but to me it is/was a stark contrast to the mainland. Really a shame to know it will slide into the chinese system.

All China would have to do was cut off the water supply and they could make the city surrender.

you mean as part of normal diplomatic relations the chinese cut off water to a british hong kong? They could also nuke it or drop chemical weapons. But also wouldn't do that.

>similar to Hong Kong
Nope. Gib Rock is definitely ours.

britain is epic troll, sailing around other countries claiming every little rock just off the coast

Slide/shill thread.

How many times is this exact thread posted?

Come on, Sup Forums...

The PRC was fully prepared to use force to claim the island.

Because UK is poor now thanks to the EU.
And that island is of strategic importance, to control Brazil and Argentina in case of war

If Argentina can't keep it from the British when it's right fucking there they don't deserve it

It's British.

Argentina, however, is future United States clay. Start learning English, Constitutional Republic governance, liberty, and capitalism.

>no true Scotsman

we asked the people who lived there who they would rather join, the argies or the UK. They chose, and continue to choose, the UK. They are UK citizens so we defend them.

Hong Kong chose China.

This is the most logical response in this thread.

Syria should give the UK back to the British.

>Hong Kong chose China.
lol no.

Hong Kong was leased the lease expired...

Hong Kong was given to the UK 'in perpetuity'. It was the New Territories that were given as an additional concession after the Boxer Rebellion and that land had a 99 year lease. The rest of Hong Kong was given to Britain perpetually 60 years earlier.

That is not how territorial claim works lad. Ever heard of uti possidetis juris?
The Russians stole Crimea from Ukraine by the same reasoning.