Hong Kong’s police force fired tear gas and pepper spray at demonstrators on Sunday. But officers have now withdrawn from the city centre, in a move that has disconcerted protesters.
Lindsey Hilsum
The demonstrators are a new generation, but they all know what happened in Tiananmen Square on 4 June 1989, when the Communist Party crushed a student protest in Beijing with tanks.
Hong Kong descends into chaos as the city’s youthful protesters decide how far they want to push a pro-democracy movement in order to shut down the global financial hub.
In a mass demonstration in Hong Kong on Tuesday, protesters are hoping their Beijing-based masters get the “message” and leave them alone.
Liam Dutton
A major typhoon is currently sitting in the north Pacific Ocean and is likely to become a super typhoon within the next 24 hours.