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Given the immediate parallels between Hong Kong and Cyprus, the temptation exists to over-extrapolate. Hong Kong and Cyprus were two relatively small but strategic islands in the Cold War divided by nationalist and communist politics. Over both colonies, Britain aimed to maintain sovereignty, which was contested by internal communist-nationalist rivalries as well as external powers, themselves wracked with communist-led civil wars and wider Cold War tensions.
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Sutton, C. (2017). Conclusion: Britain, the Empire, and the Cold War. In: Britain’s Cold War in Cyprus and Hong Kong. Britain and the World. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33491-2_14
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