Hong Kong’s last colonial governor Chris Patten told Ming Pao, through his secretary, that the “chief executive is mistaken” on Thursday. He was responding to the Education Bureau’s rebuttal to his column about academic freedom. The bureau claimed that the tradition of the having the chief executive as chancellor of all government-funded universities stems from Patten’s decisions more than twenty years ago. Student unions … Continue reading ‘The chief executive is mistaken’, says Chris Patten as ex-governor’s spat with HK gov’t continues