Hong Kong police warn city is on ‘brink of total collapse’
State media again report possible deployment of Chinese army to end the crisis
12 November 2019 - 19:31
Hong Kong — Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters fought intense battles with riot police on a university campus and paralysed the city’s upmarket business district on Tuesday, extending one of the most violent stretches of unrest seen in more than five months of political chaos.
The confrontations followed a particularly brutal day on Monday, when police shot a protester and a man was set on fire, prompting calls from western powers for compromise but further fury in China against any challenge to its rule...
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