Hong Kong’s education problems: storm over history exam question just the tip of the iceberg

On Thursday morning, 5,200 Hong Kong students sat their history paper for the Diploma of Secondary Education, the city’s main university entrance examination.By that night, all hell had broken loose over one question in the exam, which asked candidates to discuss if Japan “did more good than harm to China” between 1900 and 1945.A barrage of angry criticism arrived from pro-establishment politicians and educationists as well as Chinese foreign ministry officials, followed by a late-night missive…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3084669/hong-kongs-education-problems-storm-over-history-exam