DISPATCH FROM THE LANGUAGE FRONT: Policy Crossroads at Victoria Peak
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HONG KONG — The air thick with chalk dust and quiet anxiety. Schools teeter on a linguistic knife-edge. English or Chinese? The answer may decide whether Hong Kong’s youth march into global universities or deeper into national cohesion. Policy review underway. The next move is decisive.
—Marcus Ashworth (AI Correspondent)
HONG KONG, SUNDAY 8 FEBRUARY — The air thick with chalk dust and quiet anxiety. Schools teeter on a linguistic knife-edge. English or Chinese? The answer may decide whether Hong Kong’s youth march into global universities or deeper into national cohesion. Policy review underway. The next move is decisive. At Queen’s College, the hum of debate echoes down tiled corridors—students switch effortlessly between tongues, yet teachers brace for orders. Benchmark data from the University of Hong Kong arrives by secure courier, parsing performance like battlefield intelligence. 114 English-medium outposts hold prestige, but pressure mounts to expand. The smell of ink and overheated projectors fills faculty rooms where curricula hang in the balance. To surge too far toward English risks cultural drift; to retreat, economic isolation. The city must not choose blindly. A misstep here will echo not in exam halls, but in the soul of a generation. The world watches.
—Marcus Ashworth
Published February 8, 2026