HK Schools Are Becoming 'lawless': Xinhua
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2020-05-16 HKT 15:42
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Xinhua News Agency said on Saturday that schools in Hong Kong appear to have become "lawless places", where people can freely attack One Country, Two Systems and slander the nation.
A commentary by the official state news agency said Hong Kong's education system has failed to "de-colonise" and the SAR government must start taking this "chronic condition" seriously.
Xinhua accused Hong Kong's Examination Authority of "glorifying" Japan's occupation of China in the early 20th century with the inclusion of a controversial question in this year's Diploma of Secondary Education history exam.
The Education Bureau has ordered the authority to invalidate the question on whether Japan did more good than harm to China during the period between 1900 and 1945.
Xinhua said scrapping the question is the only way to suppress the anger of the Chinese people.
The news agency added that it has seen a surge in biased, misleading and extremely controversial political questions in both history and liberal studies exams in the SAR.
It went on to question whether some people are trying to "brainwash" Hong Kong students.
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