Conservatism in Hong Kong the way to maintain the "status quo" of Hong Kong. They initially supported the British Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's efforts in insisting the validity of the Treaty of Nanking of 1842. However, Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese paramount leader insisted in restoring sovereignty in Hong Kong in 1997, but guaranteed the "capitalist system and way of life shall remain unchanged for 50 years," which was later written in the Article 5 of the Hong Kong Basic Law. Besides its "Old Left" Beijing loyalists in the colony which were represented by the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (HKFTU), the Communist
Hong Kong and Kowloon Committee for Anti-Hong Kong British Persecution Struggle chairperson. 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