Commentary
More than 300 school principals and representatives of the school sponsoring bodies and educational organizations attended the Patriotic Education Summit Forum opening ceremony and the Patriotic Education Centre run by the Hong Kong Federation of Education Workers on July 16.
The first two guests mentioned in Chief Executive John Lee Ka-Chiu’s speech, were Yang Yirui, Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong, and Jiang Jianxiang, Minister of Education, Science and Technology of the Liaison Office.
We cannot help but ask: Will the high-profile involvement of the Liaison Office affect the image of “one country, two systems” when education is a matter of autonomy for Hong Kong?…