Liberalism in Hong Kong as the Chinese Language Movement, the anti-corruption movement, defend the Diaoyu Islands movement and so on, in which many of the student leaders became the backbones of the contemporary pro-democracy movement. In the early years of the 1980s, Hong Kong politics was dominated by the issue of the sovereignty of Hong Kong after 1997. Deng Xiaoping, the paramount leader of the Chinese Communist government insisted Chinese sovereignty of Hong Kong, while the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher insisted the legality of the Treaty of Nanking. Some Hong Kong liberal intellectuals see it as an opportunity to change the colonial status
Hong Kong and Kowloon Committee for Anti-Hong Kong British Persecution Struggle Hong Kong and Kowloon Committee for Anti-Hong Kong British Persecution Struggle The Committee of Hongkong-Kowloon Chinese Compatriots of All Circles for Struggle Against Persecution by the British Authorities in Hongkong or the All-Circle Struggle Committee ( or 港英迫害鬥爭委員會) was a committee established by pro-Communist Party of China activists in 1967. The committee was established during the 1967 Hong Kong riot. The committee explicitly targeted the British Colonial government in Hong Kong. According to "Ta Kung Pao" reports on May 24, 1967, there were 348 leftist activists joined the committee, in which Yeung Kwong, leader of FTU, was elected as the