Crossword-Solution: HONGKONG
We have 19 clues for the answer “HONGKONG”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Crown colony | 1 answer |
| Where West trades with East. | 1 answer |
| Site of pro-democracy and anti-extradition protests (starting March, 2019) | 1 answer |
| Region at the mouth of the Pearl River | 1 answer |
| Quickie tailor center | 1 answer |
| Pearl River city | 1 answer |
| Locale of "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing." | 1 answer |
| It was under the Union Jack until 1999 | 1 answer |
| It reverted to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 | 1 answer |
| City with daily ferries to Macau | 1 answer |
| City at the mouth of the Pearl River | 1 answer |
| Chinese special administrative region | 1 answer |
| British colony in China. | 1 answer |
| Another Far East naval base. | 1 answer |
| A British crown colony | 1 answer |
| #7: E Asia, red and white | 1 answer |
| Former British crown colony | 2 answers |
| Far East metropolis. | 2 answers |
| BRITISH COLONY UNTIL 1970 | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HONGKONG (5)
Not to be outdone by the others, France demanded and received a similar strip of territory at Kuang-chou-wan; and England found that Wei-hai-wei would be indispensable as a kennel from which she could guard the Russian bear on the opposite shore, but why she should have found it necessary also to demand from China four hundred miles of land and water around Hongkong was no doubt difficult for Kuang Hsu to understand.
Since then a few joint stock companies have been started in Hongkong, Shanghai, and other ports; these have been carried on by Chinese exclusively, but the managers have not as yet mastered the systematic Western methods of conducting such concerns.
The British in Hongkong afford an illustration of a different order, proving the truth of my contention that, excepting as a sphere for the exercise of altruism, the acquisition of new territories is an illusive gain.
When Hongkong was ceded to Great Britain at the conclusion of a war in which China was defeated, it was a bare island containing only a few fishermen's huts.
Now Hongkong is a self-supporting colony, but what benefits do the British enjoy there that do not belong to everyone else? The colony is open to all foreigners, and every right which a British merchant has is equally shared with everyone else.
Quotes with HONGKONG (2)
I wanted to write an adventure story, not, it's true, I really did. I shall have failed, that's all. Adventures bore me. I have no idea how to talk about countries, how to make people wish they had been there. I am not a good travelling salesman. Countries? Where are they , whatever became of them. When I was twelve I dreamed of Hongkong. That tedious, commonplace little provincial town! Shops sprouting from every nook and cranny! The Chinese junks pictured on the lids of cho…
The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1951–2021).