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Hong Kong: violence follows calls for Trump to ‘liberate’ territory
Protesters clash with police in shopping districts after rally to petition US to ‘resist Beijing’
Hong Kong police have fired teargas to disperse protesters in the upmarket Causeway Bay shopping district, after demonstrators rallied at the US consulate calling on Donald Trump to “liberate” the territory.
Police had clashed with protesters in the Centraldistrict as the demonstrations in Hong Kong entered their 14th week. Protesters dispersed to nearby Admiralty, the bar district of Wan Chai and on to Causeway Bay.