Hong Kong's civilization began in the Paleolithic era ranging from 35,000 years to 39,000 years ago . According to archaeological findings, we Hong Kong people are not Chinese, because our immediate ancestors were the Yueh dated back to 7,000 years ago and living in lands that stretched across today's territory of southern China and northern Vietnam, as opposed to the Han, or Chinese, dated back to 5,000 years ago and living in lands that stretched across today's territory of northern China. The two peoples, the Yueh and the Han, did not meet until 2,000 years ago when the Han, who were barbarian nomads ignorant of farming, moved southward as far as Vietnam (whose people are known as Yuet) to conquer the advanced agricultural Yueh.   During the past 2,000 years, the Chinese thought Hong Kong was just a piece of barren rock left to a few fishermen. The only event of note was that the last emperor of Song dynasty jumped off a cliff in Kowloon to his death when cornered by the Mongolian hordes, and this is just an unverified legend.

On its defeat in the first Opium War (1840-1842), China's Qing Dynasty signed the Nanking Treaty and the Peking Treaty with Britain to permanently cede Hong Kong Island and Kowloon Peninsula to Britain respectively. In 1898, Britain and Qing Dynasty entered into the Convention between Great Britain and Great Qing Empire Regarding an Extension of Hong Kong Territory under which Britain leased the New Territories from China for 99 years. At that point, the frontier of Hong Kong was defined.

In 1911, Qing Dynasty was replaced by the Republic of China whose first leader was Sun Yat-sen. In 1927 warlord Chiang Kai-shek defeated other warlords and unified the Republic of China . Neither Sun nor Chiang contested the Nanking Treaty and Peking Treaty, and they had never tried to claim sovereignty over Hong Kong.

Warlord Sun Yat-sen, China's controversial "nation's father".  

Warlord Chiang Kai-shek, Sun's belligerent successor.

In 1941, Japanese army started to occupy Hong Kong, and in consequence British colonial rule over Hong Kong came to a halt. China did everything it could to sabotage Hong Kong's prosperity during three years and eight months' Japanese occupation of Hong Kong to make life miserable in Hong Kong. As soon as the Second World War ended in 1945, Britain dispatched its troops to take over Hong Kong without the approval of the international community, making Hong Kong a British colony again.

Chiang hurt the Japanese occupied-Hong Kong.

Japan's surrender to the Allied Forces in 1945 did not bring peace to China; instead, it ushered in a full-scale civil war between the corrupt Kuomintang Chiang Kai-shek's regime and the Chinese communists. By mid-1949, Chinese communist army had defeated Chiang Kai-shek's troops which then kept fleeing to Taiwan. In October 1949 the People's Republic of China was established , and then a lot of Chinese refugees arrived in Hong Kong - most of them settled in Hong Kong. In 1960, the United Nations ruled that it should temporarily take over all colonies worldwide, of which some should then be governed by United Nations-mandated countries, and subsequently hold referendums in the former colonies to determine their political future. As a colony, Hong Kong shall have the right to hold a referendum to determine its political future pursuant to the aforesaid ruling given by the United Nations.

During the following three decades, most colonies in the world held referendums to determine whether they should become independent or self-ruled. As a result, in Asia and Africa almost a hundred colonies were turned into sovereign states, though some colonies like Gibraltar chose to continue to be a British colony.

Hong Kong is the only colony totally deprived of such a right [to claim independence] and thereby sold out by Britain and China! The People's Republic of China, the most shameless country on earth, removed Hong Kong and Macau from a list of United Nations-recognized colonies immediately after its accession to the United Nations in 1971 and pushed the United Nations to recognize that both Hong Kong and Macau should belong to China, paving the way for its annexing Hong Kong and Macau.

Mao Zedong, the tyrant of the communist China from 1949 to 1976, was determined to take a capitalistic Hong Kong back at a 'suitable' time.

In the 1980s, paying no respect to the Nanking Treaty and the Peking Treaty, China's leader Deng Xiaoping not only forced Britain to 'hand over' Hong Kong in 1997 but also denied Hong Kong the right to hold a referendum on self-determination. Incompetent and scared, London surrendered Hong Kong to China, making Hong Kong people an orphan in the international community.

Margaret Thatcher, the then British prime minister, initially argued that the two treaties shall be effective and enforced, and she suggested that London own Hong Kong whereas Beijing govern Hong Kong after 1997.

Deng Xiaoping promised to implement a "One Country, Two Systems" policy in Hong Kong after the Chinese takeover in 1997.

Jiang Zemin is the greatest beneficiary of Deng's notorious endeavors, i.e. June 4th Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989 and Hong Kong's Handover in 1997, and the biggest seller of China's territory.