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B. The protests in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square calling for democracy were forcibly suppressed with heavy loss of life on June 4, 1989. Estimates of the death toll range from a few hundred to a few thousand.
C. Hong Kong became a British colony in 1842 after it was occupied during a war to force China to allow British merchants to import and sell opium to the Chinese. China's leaders have said Hong Kong voters can elect their leader in 2017 – but only from candidates approved by Beijing.
A. Hong Kong is surrounded by the South China Sea on the east, south, and west, and borders the Guangdong city of Shenzhen to the north over the Shenzhen River. It consists of Hong Kong Island, the Kowloon Peninsula, the New Territories, and over 200 offshore islands.
D. China has more than four times the population of the United States in about the same geographic area. China's economy has grown fast in the last three decades after starting far behind the United States.