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During the First Opium War, China cedes the island of Hong Kong to the
British with the signing of the Chuenpi Convention, an agreement seeking
an end to the first Anglo-Chinese conflict.
In 1839, Britain invaded China to crush opposition to its interference
in the country’s economic and political affairs. One of Britain’s first
acts of the war was to occupy Hong Kong, a sparsely inhabited island off
the coast of southeast China. In 1841, China ceded the island to the
British, and in 1842 the Treaty of Nanking was signed, formally ending
the First Opium War.
Britain’s new colony flourished as an East-West trading center and as
the commercial gateway and distribution center for southern China. In
1898, Britain was granted an additional 99 years of rule over Hong Kong
under the Second Convention of Peking. In September 1984, after years of
negotiations, the British and the Chinese signed a formal agreement
approving the 1997 turnover of the island in exchange for a Chinese
pledge to preserve Hong Kong’s capitalist system. On July 1, 1997, Hong
Kong was peaceably handed over to China in a ceremony attended by
numerous Chinese and British dignitaries. The chief executive under the
new Hong Kong government, Tung Chee Hwa, formulated a policy based upon
the concept of “one country, two systems,ö thus preserving Hong Kong’s
role as a principal capitalist center in Asia.
73 de Scott KF5JRV
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