Beijing’s Assault on Hong Kong Now Extends to Language
George Orwell would understand
Our Correspondent | Sep 3, 2020 |

Step by step, guided by the not-so-unseen hand of Beijing, assumptions about Hong Kong are being changed, words deleted and meanings re-interpreted. This week it became known that the Secretary for Education had ordered the deletion of the phrase “separation of powers” from its websites and educational materials in relationship to Hong Kong’s Basic Law …