Bangkok: China’s military has defended a brief deployment of soldiers onto Hong Kong’s streets, warning that ending violence is the “most pressing task” in the city.
Dozens of soldiers emerged from their barracks in Hong Kong on Saturday to help clean up streets of debris and barricades strewn out by pro-democracy protesters.The brief clean-up operation came at the end of a week of particularly intense clashes between police and protesters that had caused chaos across Hong Kong.
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