Police officers stand guard during an anti-government protest in Hong Kong's tourism district of Tsim Sha Tsui, China October 27, 2019. REUTERS/Ammar Awad/File Photo
HONG KONG (Reuters) - 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. Some of these mainlanders, as they are called, say they are looking to relocate while others say they dare not go out at the weekends, when the protests regularly escalate.
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