Anson Chan backs 'anti-red campaign'
10-08-2012
Former Chief Secretary Anson Chan. Photo: Francis Moriarty
Concerned by the growing involvement of Beijing's Liaison Office in politics at every level, former chief secretary Anson Chan is throwing her support behind the Civic Party's "Say No to a Red Hong Kong" election campaign.
Mrs Chan, who has also served as an elected legislator, says the Liaison Office has gone beyond its ambit under the One-Country Two-Systems formula.
And, she says the government's effort to mandate national education starting in elementary schools "has touched a nerve" in Hong Kong, especially among the many people whose families came here to escape civil war, the Cultural Revolution and other political campaigns on the mainland