> I figure some people lived there, but it was not a city. <
Yes, correct. The area now known as Hong Kong was once just a collection of small villages. But that’s not the point. The point is that the area was Chinese, like forever. Then the British took it by threat of force.
This is quite different than the Falklands situation, which was the topic of the original poster.
The point is you misrepresented things.
For no reason. It has no bearing at all on the Falklands.