Hong Kong unveils education guidelines
Students as young as six will be taught about colluding with foreign forces and subversion
05 February 2021 - 10:22
Hong Kong/Toronto — Hong Kong has unveiled controversial guidelines for schools in the Chinese-ruled city that include teaching students as young as six about colluding with foreign forces and subversion as part of a new national security curriculum.
Beijing imposed the security law on Hong Kong in June 2020 in response to months of often violent antigovernment and anti-China protests in 2019 that put the global financial hub more firmly on an authoritarian path...
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