FRANCE 24 English published this video item, entitled “Joe Biden rallies allies to take tougher stance on China” – below is their description.
#China, and the ideological challenges posed by its rise, is set to be among the most pressing topics facing leaders of the #G7 when they gather in England on Friday. In his first foreign trip as United States President, Joe #Biden is expected to try and convince allies to join Washington in taking a tougher stance towards #Beijing over its actions in Xinjiang, Hong Kong and the South China Sea among other areas. FRANCE 24’s Charles Pellegrin says.
FRANCE 24 English YouTube Channel
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In This Story: Hong Kong
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.