Why did not the British support Hong Kong in 2020?

Did you expect the UK go to war with a super power to help these Asians (chose to stay there).???? Same as the US did NOT want to waste more Américan lives to save the useless south Vietnamese in the fall of Saigon in 1975...and it WILL be the same in Taiwan, they must pay money to buy weapons to defend themself, American lives matter , period.

Stupid to think that a small country like UK could have any way of forcing China to back down. Even the USA  could not.  Look what China is doing in the South China Sea; making claims to disputed territories; will the US confront them, risking a full scale military conflict?

not a current event. Post in "history".

 why should it?

for centuries the UK government has made this and that treaty to suit ITS needs at the time (THAT treaty was only made to keep the citizens of HK quiet during the transition back to chinese control- so the UK didnt need to send in troops to keep them quiet during that time)

But it also has no quarms about ditching it when times change and its needs change

Just how, do you think we betrayed them? In what way did we "throw them under the bus". Those intelligent enough, either got out before the Great Snatch Back, or got a different passport. Those who stayed were stupid enough to believe the Mainland's promises.

Hong Kong was the result of Britain retaliating against China and its Emperor banning the use of Opium for comerce , it resulted in the opium wars , millions of Chinese died of drug addiction as the British paid for goods with opium, now if you have a kind word to defend Britain keep it , as we throw stones at he world and their bad ways it opens up the filth we grew up on as an Empire 

According to Chris Patton, former Guv'ner, the British Army secreted an enormous Cobalt-Salted Thermo Nuclear Device underneath the Runway just prior to our exit.

If the PRC fcuk about to much it's curtains for the entire area.

Just another example of true British ingenuity

On December 19, 1984, after years of negotiations, British and Chinese leaders signed a formal pact approving the 1997 turnover of the colony in exchange for the formulation of a “one country, two systems” policy by China’s communist government. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called the agreement “a landmark in the life of the territory, in the course of Anglo-Chinese relations, and in the history of international diplomacy.” Hu Yaobang, the Chinese Communist Party’s secretary-general, called the signing “a red-letter day, an occasion of great joy” for China’s one billion people.

Because the UK is run by LWNJs like Boris Johnson who secretly crave the communism they have in China.

The UK has offered citizenship to HK citizens but there is a limit to what can be done. Maybe they should adopt the US tactic of brawling with the Chinese, because that seems so effective.