> Hong Kong didn’t exist. <
??? The area now known as Hong Kong was occupied by the Chinese for centuries before the British forced the Chinese to hand it over (at the end of the First Opium War).
That is not a particular knock against the British. That’s just the way things were done in those days. If you were strong enough to take it, you took it.
You’re wrong.
It was a rock. I figure some people lived there, but it was not a city.
It had a deep harbor, that’s why the British wanted it. The Chinese cared nothing about a deep water port.
The British turned it in to a port city and it got its name that way - fragrant harbor. The opium smelled sweet.
So stop saying things that are not true.