Senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi told a Hong Kong business delegation that more s...
FILE PHOTO: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi attends a press conference with South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono after the ninth trilateral foreign ministers' meeting among China, South Korea and Japan at Gubei Town in Beijing, China, 21 August 2019. Wu Hong/Pool via REUTERS
Hong Kong has been engulfed in angry and sometimes violent protests against the government for three months, sparked by a now-suspended extradition bill and concerns that Beijing was trying to bring the territory under greater mainland control. The China Daily warned in an editorial that the gap between the government and protesters appeared to be “unbridgeable”, with the administration not able to “swallow the pills the demonstrators prescribe”.
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