China tells Hong Kong: 'The most important thing at present is to punish violence and uphold the rule of law.”
BEIJING—China’s top office for Hong Kong affairs used a rare news conference to endorse the territory’s leader and the police’s handling of increasingly violent clashes with protesters, signaling that Beijing is unlikely to yield concessions as it pressures the semiautonomous city to quell the unrest.
Yang Guang, a spokesman for the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council, on Monday gave tacit support for the city’s authorities to further ramp up their efforts to resolve the standoff—making it clear that the...
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