As the main battlefield of the Sino Japanese War and the Russo Japanese War, Dalian has suffered two major wars. In modern history, a Russian and Japanese colony for nearly half a century.

作为甲午战争和日俄战争的主要战场，大连在近代史上曾遭受两次大的战争劫，沦为俄、日殖民地近半个世纪。

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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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