Some thought Hong Kong's protest movement might begin to fizzle out. Instead recent events have escalated tensions
“SOCIETY HAS been pushed to the brink of a total breakdown.” So warned a senior policeman on November 12th, after a 23rd successive weekend of unrest on Hong Kong’s streets, with no sign of the usual weekday lull. A day later the central government also put it starkly. Hong Kong, it said, was “sliding into the abyss of terrorism”.
Both sides deny their own excesses. Many protesters initially dismissed the case of the man who was set on fire after remonstrating with demonstrators as the work of a stuntman. At a press conference following Monday’s mayhem, Carrie Lam, the city’s leader, responded to allegations of widespread police brutality by accusing the press of distorting “isolated incidents”.
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