HONG KONG: Hong Kong police on Monday warned for the first time that they may use"live rounds" after anti-government protesters fired arrows and threw petrol bombs at officers at a beseiged university campus, as the crisis engulfing the city sharply escalated.
Police declared the campus a"riot" scene - a rioting conviction carries up to 10 years in jail - and blocked exits as spokesman Louis Lau issued a stark warning in a Facebook live broadcast. Three protesters have been shot by police in the unrelenting months of protests, but all in scuffles as chaotic street clashes played out - and without a sweeping warning being given by a force which overwhelmingly depends on tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets.
Chinese President Xi Jinping this week issued his most strident comments on the crisis, saying it threatened the"one country, two systems" model under which Hong Kong has been ruled since the 1997 handover from Britain.'SQUEEZE THE ECONOMY'
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