Hong Kong — Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam declared a return of stability, even as authorities deployed thousands of riot police and threatened arrests to deter protesters from returning to the streets in the Asian financial centre.
The Beijing-backed government used a ceremony on Thursday marking the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949 to demonstrate its ability to suppress unrest since imposing a powerful security law on the former British colony in June. With about 6,000 riot police on standby, Lam presided over a flag-raising ceremony free from disruption. It was a marked contrast from 2019, when calls for protests forced officials from the special administrative region to take shelter inside...
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