After 900 days without travel for fear of the Covid, Xi Jinping made his first long official trip on June 30 and July 1, 2022.
He did not go abroad but, symbolically, in a Chinese territory which was long dominated by foreigners.
Hong Kong Island was granted to the British Crown in 1842 by the “unequal Treaty” of Nanjing, after the Middle Kingdom lost the First Opium War.
It was a war that London waged on the Chinese to force them to let drugs produced in India, which at the time were the jewel of Queen Victoria's empire, enter their market.
The colony grew in 1898, thanks to a 99-year lease on the “New Territories”.
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