The United Kingdom was never the colonial ruler of Hong Kong, according to revisionist books that were reportedly made for the city’s communist puppet government.
Despite the Sino-British Joint Statement guaranteeing internal leadership in the city by 2047, textbooks for “humanities” in secondary schools that reaffirm Beijing’s priority over Hong Kong deny that the British are colonial rulers of Hong Kong.
Report from: South China Morning Post He also supported Beijing’s 2019 pro-democracy protests, saying the textbooks, pending approval from the Bureau of Education, were motivated by foreign powers and undermined national security.
The change to the “humanities” course comes after pro-CCP officials accused the course of aiming at building critical thinking and public awareness about radicalizing students against communist China.
The impact of communist ideology on education in Hong Kong was one of the key issues during the 2014 Umbrella Movement, when youth activists such as Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow led more than 100,000 students and others to protest the implementation of the so-called Moral Code. . . and National Education,” promoted by the CCP government of then Chief Executive KI Luna.
Commenting on the changes to the textbook, Benedict Rogers, founder and chairman of Hong Kong Watch, told Breitbart London: incoming.
“Teaching Hong Kong children a completely wrong version of history is part of Beijing’s plan to brainwash Hong Kongers with CCP propaganda.”
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– Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) 28 May 2020
After the defeat of imperial China during the Opium Wars in the 19th century, Britain took control of Hong Kong Island under the Treaty of Nanjing in 1842 and then took control of the Kowloon Peninsula under the Beijing Convention in 1860. The United Kingdom continued to rule the city until it was handed over to Hong Kong when it was handed over to the CCP in Beijing in 1997.
Despite more than 150 years of colonial rule, Communist China has long denied the validity of agreements using socialist legal theory, because agreements would be declared void because there was an imbalance of power between the two powers at the time of signing.
Although this argument was never accepted in international law, in 1972 – a year after Communist China was admitted to the United Nations – Beijing successfully succeeded at the UN to remove Hong Kong and Macau from the “Non-Self-Governing Territory” list. lobbying. This meant that they lost the right to self-determination guaranteed by the 1960 Declaration of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.
While most of the 99 Member States that voted for Resolution 2908 were allegedly unaware of the Hong Kong clause as it was a minor addition, the Communist Party used it as proof that Britain never had colonial rule in the city.
Finn Lau, Hong Kong freedom activist in exile in the UK, told Breitbart London: “The Chinese Communist Party and Beijing-controlled authorities in Hong Kong are trying to spread disinformation to justify their forced diplomacy about Britain and Hong Kong between 1945 and 1997. . people.”
However, Lau complained that Hong Kong would probably not have been ceded to China in 1997, as Hong Kong might have gained its independence from Britain and Beijing had it not been for UN Resolution 2908. For “a subsequent large-scale movement fighting for democracy and civil liberties in Hong Kong in 2014, 2016 and 2019-2022”.
22 years later: How the Chinese Communist Party destroyed Hong Kong’s legacy by giving https://t.co/9Jw3I9P5Sk
– Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) January 1, 2020
Source: Breitbart
