If I were China I would point out the HK's entire existence is because Britain needed a staging area from which to wage war upon China so that Britain would hav

If I were China I would point out the HK's entire existence is because Britain needed a staging area from which to wage war upon China so that Britain would have a market to sell all the opium it was producing in the Raj, which set the conditions for the Taiping Rebellion, which killed over 20 million people.