The Chinese Communist Party‘s implementation of Education reforms in Hong Kong to indoctrinate primary and secondary school students with the content of the Hong Kong version of the National Security Law has been condemned by senior U.S. Senator Rubio. Rubio urged the Biden administration to continue to hold Chinese Communist Party officials accountable.
The Chinese Communist Party’s implementation of education reform in Hong Kong, which indoctrinates elementary and middle school students with a “Hong Kong version of the National Security Law,” has been condemned by senior U.S. Senator Rubio. Rubio urged the Biden Administration to continue to hold Chinese Communist Party officials accountable.
In a statement issued on February 5 in response to the Hong Kong government’s announcement of education directives under the Communist Party’s National Security Law, Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio, one of the authors of the Hong Kong Bill of Rights and Democracy, condemned the Chinese Communist government and the Communist Party of China (CCP) for continuing to suppress Hong Kong’s autonomy through the implementation of sweeping education reforms.
In the statement, Rubio said, “Every day there are increasingly clear signs that the CCP is taking greater control of Hong Kong.”
“The Chinese (Communist) government has spared no effort to impose its will on the people of Hong Kong and to undermine the freedoms they have long enjoyed. Through a disguised propaganda of patriotism, the Hong Kong government has imposed a propaganda and education policy. These so-called reforms clearly show that the CCP’s goal is to crush academic freedom in Hong Kong and begin to impose on the next generation of Hong Kong people the ideological unity that has long been imposed on the people of mainland China.” He said.
“As Beijing continues to suppress Hong Kong’s fundamental freedoms, the United States cannot remain silent. The Biden administration must continue to pursue (Hong Kong and China) officials involved in undermining the freedoms and autonomy the city (Hong Kong) has long enjoyed.” the statement reads.
Rubio is co-chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) and a member of the Subcommittee on East Asia, Pacific and International Cybersecurity Policy.
On February 4, the Hong Kong Education Bureau announced guidelines and curriculum arrangements for what the Chinese Communist authorities call “safeguarding national security and national security education,” proposing to implement the National Security Law among primary and secondary school students in Hong Kong, allowing them to learn about crimes such as “secession and subversion of the state. The name of the crime of “secession, subversion of the state” and so on.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Tian Fangze, vice president of the Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union, said the framework is “extremely well thought out” and will control everything that happens in schools, and that “these measures will destroy the relationship between teachers and students. “
In a Feb. 4 report, the Financial Times said that the regulation of education underscores that the Chinese Communist Party’s control over Hong Kong is no longer limited to imprisoning opposition leaders in Hong Kong, but also to reforming Hong Kong’s society to bring it more in line with mainland China.
In late June last year, the Chinese government bypassed Hong Kong’s legislature to force the implementation of national security laws in Hong Kong, and so far more than 100 Hong Kong residents have been arrested by Hong Kong authorities on charges of violating national security laws.
After the implementation of the National Security Law in Hong Kong in July last year, President Trump signed an executive order vowing to sanction a number of Chinese and Hong Kong officials. Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Tsang Kwok-wai, Commissioner of Police Tang Ping-keung, former Commissioner of Police Lo Wai-chung, and Director of the Chief Executive’s Office Chan Kwok-kee.
On January 15, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced sanctions against You Quan, Deputy Director of the Central Leading Group for Hong Kong and Macau, Secretary of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, and Minister of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee; Sun Qingye, Deputy Director of the Office of the Commissioner of State in Hong Kong; Tam Yiu-chung, member of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People’s Congress; Choi Chin-pang, Director of the National Security Division of the Hong Kong Police Force; and Kan Kai-yan and Kong Hok-lai, two Assistant Directors of the National Security Division of the Hong Kong Police Force.
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