When the U.K.'s 99-year lease on this crown colony ended, China retook control on July 1, 1997
[DOC] [TLE] Volume VI - The Contemporary World 1950 to the Present - Scribd [PAR] 1950 USSR and China Sign Pact China signs a 30-year Treaty of Friendship with 
the ... 1954 Geneva Accords The Geneva Accords end the French war in 
Indochina.