HK campus protest persists as US bill sets up China clash | The Malaysian Insight

Materials used to make molotov cocktails during the recent protests cover the ground inside the Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus. – AFP pic, November 21, 2019.

HARDLINE Hong Kong protesters held their ground today in a university besieged for days by police as the US passed a bill lauding the city’s pro-democracy movement, setting up a likely clash between Washington and Beijing. Beijing did not immediately respond to the passage in Washington of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, which voices strong support for the “democratic aspirations of the Hong Kong people”.

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