A heavyweight U.S. senator with a long history of interest in Chinese affairs has condemned the Communist Party’s implementation of Education reforms in Hong Kong and urged the Biden administration to continue to hold Chinese officials accountable.
Sen. Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, issued a statement Feb. 5 in response to the Hong Kong government’s education directive announced under a national security law imposed by the Chinese government, condemning the Communist Party’s implementation of education reforms in Hong Kong and criticizing the Chinese government and the Communist Party for now continuing to suppress Hong Kong’s autonomy by implementing sweeping education reforms.
In the statement, Rubio said, “The Chinese government will do its utmost to impose its will on the people of Hong Kong and destroy their long cherished freedoms. The Hong Kong government is pursuing propaganda-based education directives under the guise of promoting patriotism. These so-called reforms clearly demonstrate that the Chinese Communist Party‘s goal is to destroy academic freedom in Hong Kong and to begin imposing on the next generation of Hong Kong people the ideological unification that has long been practiced in mainland China.”
The statement noted that “the United States cannot remain silent about Beijing‘s continued suppression of Hong Kong’s fundamental freedoms. The Biden Administration must continue to hold accountable those officials involved in suppressing the freedoms and autonomy this city has long cherished.”
The Hong Kong Education Bureau announced guidelines and curriculum arrangements on Feb. 4 for what authorities call “national security and national security education,” which is intended to build national security concepts among Hong Kong primary and secondary school students, strengthen students’ “understanding of national conditions and national security,” and enhance national It is intended to build national security concepts among primary and secondary school students in Hong Kong, strengthen students’ understanding of “national conditions and national security” and enhance national identity.
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