Why didn't Mao's China invade Hong Kong and Macau?

As Nehru’s India had ejected the Portuguese from Goa, Daman and Diu in 1961, there would have been little to stop China from doing the same to the Portuguese in Macau, or indeed, the British in Hong Kong, but counter-intuitive as it may seem, China used their colonial status to its advantage. read more

It would not have been in China's best interest to invade Hong Kong. Communist China needed Hong Kong as a source of importing goods they could not produce for themselves, and to provide international dollars to purchase commodities on the world market. read more