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Protesters use a sling shot to launch a milk drink container towards riot police during protests in the Central district of Hong Kong today
HONG KONG Chief Executive Carrie Lam vowed yesterday to “spare no effort” in bringing an end to violence that has rocked the Chinese city for months.
“If there is still any wishful thinking that by escalating violence the Hong Kong special administrative regional government will yield to pressure to satisfy so-called political demands — that will not happen,” she declared.
She spoke out after a day in which rioters set fire to a man trying to remonstrate with them in the Ma On Shan district. Footage shows that when the man exclaimed: “We are all Chinese,” he was doused in a flammable liquid and set alight. He fled the scene on fire and his condition remains unknown.
The cancelled China trip of the German Foreign Minister marks a break with Helmut Schmidt’s China policy and drives Germany further into Washington’s confrontation course, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
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
From 35,000 troops in Talisman Sabre war games to HMS Spey provocations in the Taiwan Strait, Labour continues Tory militarisation — all while claiming to uphold ‘one China’ diplomatic agreements from 1972, reports KENNY COYLE
