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What followed was an enormous replantation effort that was bolstered by foreign aid.

Those failures, Owens claimed, are part of what she called the "modernized techniques of the slave replantation" practiced by Democrats and the left.

A file entitled The Replantation of N. Ireland from Hong Kong records the exchanges – the title echoes the 17th-century settlement, or “plantation”, of Scots in Ulster by King James I. Written in an era of sectarian bloodshed and political stalemate, the correspondence reflects the private exasperation of those close to the heart of power.

South China Morning Post wrote Friday that a 1983 government file called “Replantation of Northern Ireland from Hong Kong,” showed that British officials were serious about putting the bizarre plan into action.

Britain’s National Archives on Friday released a 1983 government file called “Replantation of Northern Ireland from Hong Kong,” which showed British officials discussing a far-fetched proposal to settle 5.5 million Hong Kong people in a newly built “city state” between Coleraine and Londonderry.