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in 1820 import of opium spread around.China is glad to provide tea & luxuries but only accepts silver & gold so Britain had to import silver & gold from other countries.
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Lin Zexu is sent to canton and 20,000 chests of opium were burnt.But even though they stoped trading opium some citizens still traded illegally with the British citizens
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in 1842 the emperor of china gave Hong Kong to the British people to end the first opium war.
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later china gave the British the kowloon peninsula in 1860 .
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china leased the new territories in 1898 following the first sino-Japanese war.
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Murray MacLehose for the very first time he went to China to meet the Chinese leader Deng xiaoping to discuss about the British administering China.
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it was when people of central did a big protest & blocked roads, destroyed buildings & attacked police.