Under pressure to restore order, Hong Kong officials are pressing on with efforts to divide and isolate the protest movement
HONG KONG—Chinese President Xi Jinping’s demands for an unflinching crackdown on antigovernment protests in Hong Kong have locked the city’s government into escalating a battle of attrition with increasingly militant demonstrators.
After Mr. Xi said in Brazil last week that Hong Kong’s overarching priority is to end violence and restore order, police in the city employed increasingly forceful tactics against protesters: besieging a university campus to conduct mass arrests; saturating the area with massive volumes of tear...
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
China tortured me over Hong Kong, says former British consulate employeeA former employee of Britain's consulate in Hong Kong said Chinese secret p...
Read more »
U.S. House passes Hong Kong rights bills, Trump expected to signThe U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed two bills to back proteste...
Read more »
Breakingviews - Hadas: Hong Kong tips Beijing’s balance quandary(Reuters Breakingviews) - It may all make sense to Xi Jinping. For the Chinese l...
Read more »
China demands Trump veto bills on Hong KongBEIJING (AP) — China on Thursday demanded President Donald Trump veto legislation aimed at supporting human rights in Hong Kong and renewed a threat to take “strong countermeasures” if the bills...
Read more »
Hong Kong students' sewer escape thwarted as rows with UK, U.S. growHong Kong student sees snakes as campus holdouts risk sewer escapes via MZaharia JessiePang0125
Read more »
More protesters leave Hong Kong campus ahead of weekend pollMore protesters holed up inside a Hong Kong university campus have surrendered as the city’s largest pro-Beijing party urges voters to “kick out the black force” in upcoming elections seen as a key gauge of public support for anti-government protests.
Read more »