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  1. Hong Kong

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    History
    Hong Kong was established as a British colony following the First Opium War (1840-1842). The Treaty of Nanking ceded Hong Kong Island to the British Empire, while the Convention of Peking (1860) added Kowloon. The New Territories were acquired under a 99-year lease in 1898, a contractual arrangement that proved diplomatically awkwar…