{"id":3421,"date":"2019-11-15T07:39:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T07:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/transfer-of-sovereignty-over-macau\/"},"modified":"2019-11-15T07:39:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T07:39:52","slug":"transfer-of-sovereignty-over-macau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/transfer-of-sovereignty-over-macau\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer of Sovereignty over Macau"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span>The transfer of sovereignty of Macau from the Portuguese  Republic to the People&#8217;s Republic of China (PRC) occurred on 20  December 1999. Macau was settled and governed by Portuguese merchants in  1535, during the Ming Dynasty (1368&ndash;1644 AD). Portugal&#8217;s involvement in  the region was formally recognized by the Qing in 1749. The Portuguese  Governor, emboldened by the First Opium War and the Treaty of Nanking,  attempted to annex the territory, expelling Qing authorities in 1846,  but was assassinated. After the Second Opium War, the Portuguese  government, along with a British representative, signed the  Sino-Portuguese Treaty of Peking that gave Portugal sovereignty over  Macau, on the co<em><\/em>ndition that Portugal would cooperate with efforts to  end the smuggling of opium.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><span><span>After the founding of the People&#8217;s Republic of China in  1949, and its resumed membership at the United Nations in 1971, foreign  minister Huang Hua of China appealed to the UN Special Committee on  Decolo<em><\/em>nization to remove Macau (and Hong Kong) from its list of  co<em><\/em>lonies, preferring bilateral negotiations ending in a return of the  territory, rather than the expected independence outcome. The  authoritarian right-wing government of Portugal was expelled by the  Carnation Revolution, a coup that occurred in 1974. Within one year, the  government of Portugal withdrew troops from Macau, withdrew recognition  of the Republic of China in favour of the People&#8217;s Republic, and began  negotiations for the return of Macau. Four co<em><\/em>nferences from June 1986 to  March 1987 resulted in a Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration on 13 April  1987 and the transfer of sovereignty on 20 December 1999. Macau is  granted a high level of auto<em><\/em>nomy and the retention of its legal system  by the Macau Basic Law.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><br type=\"_moz\" \/>  <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2705843531\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The transfer of sovereignty of Macau from the Portuguese Republic to the People&#8217;s Republic of China (PRC) occurred on 20<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture"],"views":226,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}