Talk:Treaty of Nanking
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It seems that Qing Dynasty only let the United Kingdom to govern the HongKong island and let the Queen to process it for a period of time. But Qing Dynasty had not ceded the HongKong island to the United Kingdom!
It was an international treaty between the Ta Tsing Empire and the United Kingdom. The fact that the UK chose to translate Ta Tsing as "China" has nothing to do with the PRC.
