Alliance of Resuming British Sovereignty over Hong Kong and Independence Alliance of Resuming British Sovereignty over Hong Kong and Independence The Alliance of Resuming British Sovereignty over Hong Kong and Independence (; RBSI) is a localist political party in Hong Kong. The party aims to repeal the Sino-British Joint Declaration, resume British sovereignty, then make Hong Kong an independent state. The party does not recognise the Sino-British Joint Declaration and their identity as ethnic Chinese. It defines a Hong Kong national as someone born to parents who had gained right of abode in the city before 1997. It calls for a 10 per cent sales tax for all “non-Hong Kong”
Wellington Barracks, Hong Kong Wellington Barracks, Hong Kong Wellington Barracks () was a military barracks located to the east of Garden Road in Admiralty, Hong Kong. One of many military complexes constructed by the British Army in the area, the land was returned to the Hong Kong government in the 1970s and gradually reverted to civilian use. As a result, the barracks was closed at the end of that decade, demolished in the mid-1980s and replaced with Harcourt Garden. During the First Opium War, the British occupied Hong Kong in 1841 and one year later, Hong Kong Island was ceded to them in the