HONG KONG, Nov 17 — Hong Kong police clashed today with pro-democracy activists who vowed to “squeeze the economy” as the increasingly divided city reels from one of the worst weeks of violence in the months-long crisis. Protests have swept the global financial hub since June as many in the...
A protester throws a Molotov cocktail during clashes with police outside Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong, China November 17, 2019. — Reuters pic
A marked change in tactics last week to a “Blossom Everywhere” campaign of blockades and vandalism stretched the police force, shut down large chunks of Hong Kong’s train network and forced schools and shopping malls to close. The education bureau said schools will remain closed at the start of the week “for the sake of safety”.
Hong Kong’s airport authority today said October traffic figures were down 13 per cent on last year with 5.4 million passengers.Today’s exchanges of tear gas and petrol bombs broke out as protesters occupying Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Kowloon — now a key battleground near the blocked Cross-Harbour Tunnel — fight to keeping their stranglehold on the major transport link.
Around 80 to 100 middle-aged residents clapped and cheered as they moved debris from the road near the entrance to the tunnel that connects Kowloon with Hong Kong island — shut since Tuesday — before protesters in masks and their signature black t-shirts returned to rebuild the roadblock.The Polytechnic University has become a flashpoint in the city rocked by a week of intensified violence and chaos. A message on the university’s Facebook page urged demonstrators to leave “immediately”.
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