Sir, - Why do you insist on describing the event occurring at the end of the month in Hong Kong as a "handover"? Whatever interpretation the British government wants the world to take it is undeniable that a territory that was part of China for centuries is going to be handed back to that country.
Today, as we are only too aware of the effects of the drug culture in our country, how can we forget that Hong Kong out was coerced by imperialism from a debilitated mother country as a result of a pernicious war that attempted to force the Chinese to provide opium to vicious commercial concerns for profit- Yours,
Monkstown,
Co Dublin.