Commentary
The Education Bureau of Hong Kong (EDB) recently explained in an online article why Hong Kong had not been a British colony from historical and legal perspectives. The article has nothing new, as it merely repeats political correctness by distorting basic historical facts.
I started to expose EDB’s attempts to distort history in 2004 when I wrote an article in Ming Pao to discuss the official textbook guidelines published in 1998. A week after its publication, a Ming Pao editor wrote that the bureau had prepared the line-to-take for the Secretary for Education Arthur Li Kwok-cheung in case reporters raised a question….