During the First Opium War (Anglo-Sino War), the United Kingdom seizes the Chinese island of Hong Kong.
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‘We’ were on Britain’s side in this one and enthusiastically sent Christian missionaries, privately funded of course, and many managed to overlook the forced importation of opium. –– JL
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References:
“Today in History,” Orange County (California) Register, 27 January 2005, News:13.
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