The return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 is still a polarising topic for residents now living in the UK.
"Looking back, 1997 is a lie," says Thomas Fung, a Hong Kong-born accountant who now lives in Oxford.
Beijing's increasing influence, and the implementation of a controversial national security law two years ago, has set off uncertainty among Hongkongers over the future of their city and their freedoms.The UK has for decades given those with a British National Overseas status - created as a way of allowing Hongkongers to retain a link with the UK - the right to visit the UK for six months without a visa.
"I was too small to feel the fear myself but I remember that no-one said a positive thing about the handover," he says. *Ko, who wanted his name changed, uses the hashtag frequently. Like the SAR, he turns 25 this year. He moved to the UK with his family last year under the new visa scheme. He says she had been afraid of what life would be like after the handover, after the events of 1989 when Chinese security forces opened fire and used tanks to crush peaceful protests at in the capital Beijing.is taboo in China and no references to it are made in the country's history books or on its highly censored internet platforms.
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