Hong Kong, 1988.
Hong Kong was city that was actually governed very well by the British Empire, whereas Macau was under Portugal. For Hong Kong, the British governance resul...
MONEY
Macau depends on money from mainland China
Macau will be much richer after it loses its independence and becomes part of China and there are no travel restrictions for ...
The Portuguese colonial government did a relatively poorer job than the British colonial government. It was overthrown by the Pro-Beijing camp in 1966 and has lost its cred...
I've been to both. It's difficult to make simple comparisons, because they are so different. Hong Kong is a normal city, while Macau is a gambling resort.
The biggest genera...
Good question.
In 1999 Macau was handed back to China, but the Portuguese wanted to give Macao back way back in 1975. Portugal had no interest in Macau for a long time and t...
Although the Kuomintang government in Taiwan claimed to be the government of the Republic of China, there was little advantage for it in pressing any claim to Hong Kong and...
In terms of constitutional status, very little, as both are Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China, operating under the 'one country, two systems'...
Legally they are and the more you study the Chinese history the more you think they are.
After WWII the Chinese government at the time was the Republic of China (RoC), it ha...
The difference in these two places are in the way the people were treated by the Colonialists. It seemed that the British Colonialists always treated the Hong Kong people a...
The literal answer is that that's how the treaties were negotiated. Macau and Hong Kong are part of China, but not mainland China. They're special administrative regions.
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