Hong Kong police fire tear gas after Trump appeal

Tear gas is fired by police during a rally near Causeway Bay station in Hong Kong.

Activists set barricades, smashed windows, started street fires and vandalised the MTR metro station in Central, the smartest district of the former British colony. US Defence Secretary Mark Esper on Saturday urged China to exercise restraint in Hong Kong, which returned to Chinese rule in 1997. Last month Trump suggested China should “humanely” settle the problem in Hong Kong before a trade deal is reached with Washington.The vandalism started in the evening. Police have responded to violence over 14 weeks with water cannon, rubber bullets and tear gas.Hong Kong returned to China under a “one country, two systems” formula that guarantees freedoms not enjoyed on the mainland.China denies the accusation of meddling and says Hong Kong is an internal affair.

Schumer urged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican who sets the floor agenda, to bring up a bipartisan bill that would require an annual justification of the special treatment afforded by Washington to Hong Kong, including special trade and business privileges, under the US-Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992.

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