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British WANT TEA!
The British wanted tea and traded things like silk and other valuable things to the Chinese but the Chinese would not accept so the but the British was broke after the war so they did not have enough money to buy the tea.The British had some parts of India and the grew cotton but that did not work but poppies were growing in India so the made them into Opium to sell to china but opium is illegal in china. This is how the Opium war began -
First Opium War
The first Opium war started because the Chinese wanted the British to stop selling drugs to china then that stopped for a while until captain Eliot sent a request for the food trade to continue but there was no response so he sent a ship to china to buy food then the Chinese stopped the British thus the First Optium War began. -
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Fight in the opium war
The British were coming to china and the Chinese were protecting their boat and then when the British pretty much defeat the Chinese boat the British stopped and left -
The Japanese Ocupation
The Japanese occupied Hong kong for three years and eight months, then they surrendered at the end of WW2.On the same day as the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Empire of Japan attacked the British Crown colony of Hong Kong and occupied hong kong. -
Battle of Hong Kong
The Japanese attacked the British crown colony of hong kong, but the Japanese did not declare war. -
Post WW2
The aftermath of world war 2 in hong kong the slowly recovered and soon enough they were richer and had fun entertainment to recover from a lot of war and fighting. -
The last british governor of Hong Kong
Chris patten is the last governor of Hong Kong before the hanover -
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The handover
When hong kong was given to the Chinese they made a system called "One country, two systems".Chris patten had feared that hong kong would we the richest city in China. -
Hong Kong politician attacked
Hong kong police search for 3 men that beat up a man with baseball bat -
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Yellow umbrella
People would protest and police sprayed people with tear gas,Tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents would go and protest. It happened around Kowloon and hong kong. -
A new chief executive
CY Leung says that after this year he will not re-elect to being chief executive -
The new chief executive
CY Leung deputy and there is a vote for who should be the new chief executive and Carrie lam had the most votes and is now the new chief executive for Hong Kong -
Typhoon haoto
During 2017 in September 14th on a Thursday the typhoon haoto hit hong kong affecting the system in hong kong and the transportations.It was the first T10 ever since 2012
