government took the lead to promote the plan. He added: “Do we build [schools] only after many Hongkongers move over, or do we build first to attract more people to move?”

But Liu Cheung-hin, principal of the Hong Kong section of Luohu School for Hong Kong Children in Shenzhen, said education authorities should not focus too much on a purely Hong Kong curriculum.

Liu said his school, one of two private schools in Shenzhen where graduates could be admitted back into the Hong Kong education system, followed a mainland curriculum, except when it came to English and general studies. The latter is the only subject at the school taught in Cantonese and traditional Chinese characters. The mainland uses simplified Chinese characters in writing.

“The mainland education system is known for producingAs the Trump administration seeks to persuade English judges to extradite Julian Assange to the U.S. to stand trial on charges of violating the Espionage Act, it is difficult not to have conflicting reactions. Some of Assange's revelations have not only been odious but also dangerous. But trying him under the Espionage Act itself endangers reputable journalists as well and the ability of the public to be informed by them.

Assange has certainly engaged in appallingly disturbing conduct by publishing in WikiLeaks, of which he was a co-founder and which he controls, certain highly classified documents that had been illegally been made available to him in 2010 by former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning.

Yet if Assange can be jailed for publishing such information, far more responsible journalistic endeavors