A Hong Kong lawyer says it’s likely that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will ban the Cantonese language in the near future.
Speaking at a book launch event in Toronto on Nov. 25, Joy Luk, the first and only visually impaired lawyer in Hong Kong, said Beijing intends to “destroy the language and culture” of Hong Kong the way it did to the Tibetans, Uyghurs, and South Mongolians.
“An official of the Education Bureau of Hong Kong said speaking Cantonese—that is our mother tongue—is evil,” said Luk, who rose to fame for helping pro-democracy protesters on the front lines of the 2019 demonstrations in Hong Kong with prompt legal assistance….