Hong Kong was a British colony that was the spoils of its military victory in the Opium Wars of the mid-1800s.

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At the time, Shanghai was divided into three parts: the Chinese city, the British-led International Settlement and the French Concession, the latter two legacies of the Opium Wars in the 19th century.

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" A section seems to blame Christians for everything from the Opium Wars to abetting the Japanese invasion of China in the 1930s -- which prompted the Vatican news agency to brand it a "distortion of the truth.

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