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A. Beijing is China’s capital and third largest city behind Chongqing and Shanghai. Tianjin is the fourth largest municipality. Hong Kong’s protest leaders said suspending the controversial extradition bill is not enough, and they want it completely withdrawn.
A. Hong Kong became a colony in 1842 when the Chinese Empire ceded Hong Kong Island to the British Empire after the First Opium War. China lost more land to the colony in the Second Opium War. In the Opium Wars, Britain forced China to let it sell the highly profitable but devastatingly addictive drug to the Chinese.
C. The Pearl River is the third longest river in China and drains the southern province of Guangdong, also called Canton, into the South China Sea. As special administrative regions, Macau and Hong Kong have the highest degree of autonomy from the central government. But, Beijing is trying to take greater control of the regions.
A. Australia averages 9 people per square mile, compared with 10 in Canada, 23 in Russia and 26 in Bolivia. All of China averages 376 people per square mile compared with 87 per square mile in the United States which is roughly the same geographic size.