The british and th americans have sort of different goals at the very last fork in the road here. This is the second world war in 20 years, after all, where they've been working together as either official allies or pseudo allies. In a place like hong kong, british prestige is on the line. The people who live there, the one point five million civilians, or whatever, are under the protection of the british government. That's a crown colony, which means that british Prestige is at stake. And this prestige thing is a weird amorphous quality, isn't it? It's something tangible in the sense that every historian