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EIGHT weeks before the Chinese marched in, Britain raised a last hurrah for its last Crown Colony. Under a rain of golden skyrockets Margaret Thatcher formally declared open the Tsing ma Bridge. The world’s second longest suspension bridge is the key link to the enormous new airport on Lantau Island that will be the last imperial edifice of British Hong Kong-the last in part because of Margaret Thatcher.

As prime minister in 1982 she rejected Peking’s demand that Britain transfer sovereignty over the entire 400-square mile Crown Colony to China. “A treaty is a treaty,” she declared.

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EIGHT weeks before the Chinese marched in, Britain raised a last hurrah for its last Crown Colony. Under a rain of golden skyrockets Margaret Thatcher formally declared open the Tsing ma Bridge. The world’s second longest suspension bridge is the key link to the enormous new airport on Lantau Island that will be the last imperial edifice of British Hong Kong-the last in part because of Margaret Thatcher.

As prime minister in 1982 she rejected Peking’s demand that Britain transfer sovereignty over the entire 400-square mile Crown Colony to China. “A treaty is a treaty,” she declared.