The correct option is C
in the nineteenth century when the British, Dutch, French, Indians and Americans saw China as the largest untapped world market. The British Empire launched its first and one of the most aggressive expeditionary forces to claim the territory on the initiative of Queen Victoria in 1840, who three years later became monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The territory that would later be known as Hong Kong was obtained from the last dynasty of imperial China.
