 Complete the following phrase:  Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island from Xinan County at the end of the First Opium War in 1841 then again in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. British Hong Kong was occupied by Imperial Japan from 