Mocking ‘confession’ posted at Hong Kong Baptist University in wake of compulsory Mandarin test row
Student protester takes aim at university management, claiming requirement for students to pass a Mandarin test is a bid to please mainland authorities

A student involved in a rowdy anti-Mandarin learning protest at Hong Kong Baptist University’s language centre early this year has posted a “confession” on campus to offer a mocking apology to the Communist Party, the nation, the people, and the university for not respecting the language.
With an apparently ironic and scornful tone, William Liu Wai-lim mocked the university’s policy on Mandarin proficiency as a bid to please the mainland authorities.

Liu is a fourth year student taking environmental science.
Written in simplified Chinese characters – which is used on the mainland but not common in Hong Kong – Liu’s “confession” was addressed to the “leading cadres of various levels at the language centre” and was put on the university’s “democracy wall” on Monday.