For this reason alone, he cannot condemn the British. Invented by the British? Looking back on the road traveled, Hong Kong was ceded to Britain in the Treaty of Nanjing in 1842. Later, under various pretexts, Britain acquired Kowloon (by cession, in 1860) and, later, the New Territories (by lease, in 1898).
回顧來時路，四二年，中英簽訂南京條約，香港割讓給英國，一八六○年北京條約割讓南九龍，馬關戰敗後，英國以法租借廣州灣威脅香港安全為由，迫使清廷同意租借九龍半島，租期自一八九八年起，共九十九年。