BEIJING: Chinese state media have ramped up the rhetoric against Hong Kong's pro-democracy campaigners, describing them on Tuesday (Aug 13) as ...
Chinese state media has repeatedly issued harsh criticism of the protests, which are the biggest threat to Beijing's rule in the semi-autonomous city since the handover in 1997.
"Their hysterical purpose is to paralyse the SAR government and combat the authority of the police," the newspaper said in a commentary.On its nightly news broadcast on Monday evening, state broadcaster CCTV called the protests"extreme acts of violence tantamount to blatant murder". The stern words came as videos were widely circulating on social media of Chinese military and armoured vehicles appearing to gather in the southern city of Shenzhen.
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