Colony
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South Korea was formerly a Japanese
colony
(1910-1945), and the natives were treated like an inferior race.
Defeated and divided, it became a French
colony
in the nineteenth century, regaining independence in 1960.
It became a French protectorate, not a
colony
– as in the case of neighboring Algeria – in the nineteenth century.
Mauritius, a former British colony, brought before the UN General Assembly a longstanding territorial dispute over the strategically valuable Chagos Islands, the site of a British-US military base.
Before its reunification with mainland China, many people expected the former British
colony
to grab headlines as Beijing progressively stripped its freedoms.
Israel is regarded in the Middle East, as well as by many people in the West, as a
colony
led by white people (even though many prominent Israelis have their roots in Teheran, Fez, or Baghdad).
It is, in short, the last
colony
in Africa.
In 2002, a review by the Dutch Royal Academy of Science found that the chimpanzee
colony
there was not serving any vital research purposes.
India - once a British colony, does not;France does.
Senegalese firms seek to help their Spanish business partners, while Portugal extends an almost royal welcome to the leaders of their former colony, newly oil-rich Angola.
Indeed, at the beginning of the twentieth century, such efforts failed and Korea became a
colony
of Japan.
The grandson of tribal chiefs and son of a provincial governor in the British
colony
of Gold Coast (now Ghana), Annan blended an aristocratic style of leadership with soft-spoken personal charm, empathy, intellectual gravitas, and sartorial elegance.
China’s relationship with Hong Kong is complicated further by the legacy of the 1842 Opium War, which led to Hong Kong’s establishment as a British
colony
– and marked the beginning of the Western powers’ onslaught on China.
Notably, US courts invalidated the domestic bankruptcy law, ruling that because the island is, in effect, a US colony, its government had no authority to enact its own legislation.
Damascus maintains good political and economic relations with Russia, China, and key EU members, especially France, with its paternalistic attitude towards its former
colony
and its young president.
Statistical evidence shows that a hypothetical former
colony
of France, following hideous policies, with dictatorial and objectionable regimes, would receive much more aid from France than a non-former
colony
struggling and trying to adopt decent polices.
The dramatic decline in India’s share of global GDP under Britain’s rule, as Britain passed trade laws designed to benefit its textile producers at the expense of those in its colony, is the most visible example.
Austin, Texas, is home to the world’s largest urban
colony
of migratory bats, which live underneath the city’s central Congress Avenue Bridge.
Maybe that appreciation for its human resources is also what led Mauritius to realize that, particularly given the country’s potential religious, ethnic, and political differences – which some tried to exploit in order to induce it to remain a British
colony
– education for all was crucial to social unity.
Today’s Russia, despite its claims to be a ‘great country,’ resembles a small former colony, where every general in power wants to call himself a doctor of philosophy, just to increase his profits.”
Justice in a Hijacked StateWASHINGTON, DC – The Central African Republic (CAR), a former French
colony
based on an exploitative divide-and-rule system, is a textbook example of how a state can be captured, repurposed, and organized for looting, largely to the benefit of outsiders.
Brazil’s populist president, Jair Bolsonaro, stated that his country would not allow the G7 countries to treat it as if it were a
colony.
But with your back against the wall – Hong Kong as a kind of PRC colony, and Taiwan being threatened with military force – you can’t be too picky when it comes to your allies.
In that document’s section pertaining to Hong Kong, the CPC signaled its intention to assert full control over the former British
colony.
The proposed law (since suspended) to enable the extradition of people arrested in Hong Kong to mainland China was widely seen as a threat to democracy and the rule of law in the former British
colony.
The communiqué of the recently concluded fourth plenum of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) indicates that Chinese President Xi Jinping is planning to tighten his grip on the former British
colony
at any cost.
Cyprus is practically a Russian economic colony, and Lukashenko is Putin’s client.
Ever since the handover of the former British
colony
to China in 1997, Lai has been at the forefront of the struggle for greater civic freedom.
This draconian legislation, which was proposed in late May and passed by China’s rubber-stamp parliament on June 30, has for all practical purposes ended the autonomous status of the former British
colony.
In that sense, the logic goes, the extradition bill would threaten Hong Kong’s liberty and autonomy under the “one country, two systems” principle underpinning the city’s relationship with mainland China since 1997, when Chinese sovereignty was restored in the former British
colony.
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