Hong Kong exam question on China and Japan sparked outrage – but debates on potential good from invasions and bloodshed have historical precedent in tests

Questions asking students to debate the potential good that could come out of invasions and bloodshed have been featured in previous Hong Kong tests, despite recent Education Bureau statements identifying them as taboo, according to veteran examiners and teachers.However, the question of whether Japan did “more good than harm” to China in the first half of the last century – which sparked a political firestorm for ignoring atrocities it committed as an invader – had not appeared in any history…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3085351/hong-kong-exam-question-china-and-japan-has-sparked