COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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He was seen as too sympathetic to the Chinese and didn’t get the British enough money/power/land with his proposed Treaty.
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He stole too much Opium.
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He kept kicking Chinese people and French people in the face every time they stopped to say hello.
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He kept coming into work late.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the Hall of the People in Beijing, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang sign an agreement committing Britain to return Hong Kong to China in 1997 in return for terms guaranteeing a 50-year extension of its capitalist system.
Detailed explanation-2: -The 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration had set the conditions under which Hong Kong was to be transferred, with China agreeing to maintain existing structures of government and economy under a principle of “one country, two systems” for a period of 50 years.
Detailed explanation-3: -During the war, China temporarily ceded Hong Kong Island to the British Empire with the 1841 Convention of Chuenpi. When the war ended in 1842, the Treaty of Nanjing forced China to indefinitely cede the southern island to the British.
Detailed explanation-4: -Britain won the war in 1842, leading to the Treaty of Nanking. This treaty gave Hong Kong Island to Britain, allowed for free British trade with any merchants in China, and forced China to pay damages for the destroyed opium.