Under pressure to restore order, Hong Kong officials are pressing on with efforts to divide and isolate the protest movement
HONG KONG—Chinese President Xi Jinping’s demands for an unflinching crackdown on antigovernment protests in Hong Kong have locked the city’s government into escalating a battle of attrition with increasingly militant demonstrators.
After Mr. Xi said in Brazil last week that Hong Kong’s overarching priority is to end violence and restore order, police in the city employed increasingly forceful tactics against protesters: besieging a university campus to conduct mass arrests; saturating the area with massive volumes of tear...
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