Carrie Lam says liberal studies, a secondary school class that teaches critical thinking, helped fuel last year’s unrest
A history exam question asking Hong Kong students to assess colonial Japan’s occupation of China sparked a rebuke by Beijing on Friday and re-ignited a row over academic freedoms in the semi-autonomous city.
“Hong Kong’s education sector must not become a chicken coop without a roof,” the foreign ministry wrote on the Facebook page of its Hong Kong office. “Hong Kong’s [university exam] question leads students to be traitors,” wrote the pugnaciously nationalist Global Times newspaper on Friday. However, education is becoming a new target for Beijing after seven months of huge and often violent democracy protests rocked Hong Kong last year.
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