ANALYSIS: A moment in history shows how far China is willing to go
In 1982, China's Supreme Leader Deng Xiaoping was running out of patience, locked in negotiations with the Iron Lady, British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, for the handover of Hong Kong.
Secret documents of those meetings, later declassified, revealed that Thatcher remained "seriously disturbed by the Chinese insistence on recovering sovereignty over Hong Kong". Anyone who is the least bit surprised at Beijing's latest Hong Kong crackdown has not been paying attention.
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