Chinese state media warns ‘end is coming for those attempting to disrupt Hong Kong’

Communist Party mouthpiece Xinhua on Sunday condemned the increasingly violent anti-government protests in Hong Kong, warning that “the end is coming for those attempting to disrupt Hong Kong and antagonise China”.

“No one should harm [China’s] national sovereignty and security; no one should challenge the power of the central authorities and the authority of the Basic Law of the HKSAR; no one should use Hong Kong to infiltrate and undermine the mainland,” it said, referring to the city’s formal title of Special Administrative Region.

On Saturday, police and protesters clashed in the city centre, with demonstrators lighting fires and hurling petrol bombs at police, who responded with water cannon and tear gas. Riot police also chased protesters onto a subway train, with video footage showing officers beating people with batons and pepper spraying them.

“However, their attempt to kidnap Hong Kong and press the central authorities is just a delusion. No concession should be expected concerning [this] principle.” “Faced with the central government’s resolute support for the HKSAR government and the Hong Kong police, faced with the HKSAR government’s firm and just law enforcement, faced with strong condemnation from Chinese people, the end is coming for those attempting to disrupt Hong Kong and antagonise China,” it said.

Story continuesSpeaking at the same seminar, Xu Ze, head of the semi-official Chinese Association of Hong Kong and Macau Studies and a former director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, said the city risked “sinking into an abyss”, and described the unrest as “a decisive battle between defending or destroying one country, two systems”.

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