Latest editorial
Police stand guard on a street after clearing a road block during a march marking the anniversary of the Hong Kong handover from Britain to China, yesterday
CAMPAIGN Against Arms Trade (Caat) has called on British authorities to end sales of tear gas, pepper spray and other crowd-control ammunition to Hong Kong.
The campaign said that Hong Kong security forces had used tear gas and pepper spray against protesters and noted that in 2014, Hong Kong police had used tear gas made in Britain.
But a leading Hong Kong trade unionist warned that Western observers should not “conflate” largely peaceful protests with the “rioting, vandalism and arson” deployed by violent anti-China extremists.
From anonymous surveys claiming Chinese students are spying on each other to a meltdown about the size of China’s London embassy, the evidence is everywhere that Britain is embracing full spectrum Sinophobia as the war clouds gather, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
