Making a stand: University students wearing Guy Fawkes masks posing for a photoshoot of a graduation ceremony to support anti-government protests at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. — Reuters
HONG KONG: As anti-government protests simmer in Hong Kong, some demonstrators are increasingly focusing their anger on mainland Chinese in the city, hurling abuse and, in some cases, beating them.
More than one million mainland Chinese live and work in Hong Kong, according to official figures, many of them in the city’s bustling finance industry that serves as an entry point into China for global investors.
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