Whose hands is our fate in?

  Some private files of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher were made public yesterday on the Margaret Thatcher Foundation's official website with the work of Cambridge University researchers. 

  It was in the early hours in the morning and I was about to go to bed after deciding to put the work on my term essay to a pause for the day. But glancing this headline drew me to find the original text of her papers relating to the handover of Hong Kong. 

 ( http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/AA27A6DB4A994064855D295A5E8636D8.pdf)

  So I found this. Formerly secret notes of a meeting between Thatcher and the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping on September 24, 1982, the meeting after which the lady was well remembered tripping as she stepped out from the Great Hall of the People. 

  Much of the content of this meeting has been reported elsewhere, but a revisit of this part of history was still worth. 

  The issue discussed was pertinent to the future of all Hongkongers. But people on this piece of land were kept in the dark. 

  Reading this document dated about 30 years ago, I suddenly had a strong feeling that I have been betrayed by both governments from the time I was born

  Who decided on our fate, Hongkongers?

  Is this just a piece of land "colonised", "leased" and then "handed over", or is it home to millions of people with flesh and blood?