In 2017, Chinese President Xi Jinping told the faithful at the five-yearly Communist Party congress that belief in people’s hearts would give strength to China as a nation. “When people have faith, the country has strength and the Chinese nationality has hope,” he said at the time. The phrase has been cited again and again…
When it comes to business between companies and governments – which has traditionally been a delicate dance – US president-elect Donald Trump and his “first buddy” Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, are redefining how it works. There have always been efforts to align the interests of the public and private spheres. The process has…
The teaching of Hong Kong’s rule of law is “inseparable” from cultivating patriotism, the city’s justice minister has said as he pledged to press on with education to instil people’s love for the country. Secretary for Justice Paul Lam Ting-kwok stressed on Saturday the importance of integrating education with building patriotism at a seminar marking…
Patriotic education has become a top political priority in Hong Kong in the wake of years of social unrest, yet this emphasis is nothing new. Tung Chee-hwa, the city’s first chief executive, was a strong supporter of integrating Chinese values into young people’s education. Tung’s successor, Donald Tsang Yam-kuen, and his administration developed Hong Kong’s…