jul 25, 1860 - Opium war ends

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Other countries now like russia, france, germany and japan now have easy access to Hong Kong because they have been making similar moves to hong kong by gaining some footholds along china's coastline.
A Sino-Portuguese treaty gave Macau a colonial status similar to that of Hong Kong.
As trading started to grow in different areas like trade financing and financial services london banks economy wanted to set up shop in Hong Kong but they were to worried about their other properties back in london so te hong kong and shanghai banking corporation established a new bank called hsbc which is still well known now. It is now also headquartered in London as one of the most largest banking and financial services in the world.

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