Hong Kong Chief Scraps ‘Brainwashing’ Classes After Massive Protests

The chief executive of Hong Kong, Leung Chun-ying, on Saturday announced that the controversial “national education” classes that many here have called brainwashing, will be cancelled.
Hong Kong Chief Scraps ‘Brainwashing’ Classes After Massive Protests
After mass demonstrations in Hong Kong demanded that Leung Chun-ying cancel what have been termed communist propaganda classes from Beijing, Leung backed off on Saturday saying that the initial plan was dropped. Song Xianglong/The Epoch Times
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Matthew Robertson
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Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.
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