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today Indonesia) or the Spanish (the Philippines) for
centuries. China and Japan had largely resisted Western
penetration, except for toeholds such as Hong Kong,
which the British leased in 1841.
The new imperialism refreshed the European ap-
petite for Asia. Between 1882 and 1884 the French sub-
jugated the region of modern Vietnam, and their

expedition continued until Cambodia (1887) and Laos

(1893) were combined with Annam to form French

Indo-China. This prompted the British to complete

their annexation of Burma (1886) and to reach south

for the Malay States (today Malaysia), which became a

British-run federation in 1896. By the turn of the cen-

tury, only Siam (Thailand) remained independent in

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