Chinese state media urge 'tougher line' on Hong Kong

Chinese state-run media on Monday called for a "tougher line" on democracy protesters in Hong Kong, after a weekend of violence following Beijing's plans to tighten control over semi-automous city.

Hong Kong Protesters get violent

Hardcore demonstrators in financial hub smashed windows of official Xinhua news ncy's regional bureau on Saturday, capping ar weekend of unrest that also saw scores of arrests and a gruesome attack on a pro-democracy lawmaker. "Intensifying violence in Hong Kong calls for tougher line to restore order," state-run China Daily, an English-langu mainland newspaper, said in an editorial.

protesters "court indulgence extended to m by friendly local and Western media outlets, while seeking to silence those trying to put protests in spotlight of truth," daily said.

"y are doomed to fail simply because ir violence will encounter full weight of law." nationalist tabloid Global Times called in an editorial on Sunday for "Hong Kong's law enforcement ncies to bring mob to justice as soon as possible" for vandalizing Xinhua's office.

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Neir editorial mentioned a knife attack on Sunday in Tai Koo Shing, a middle-class neighbourhood on Hong Kong's main island where a rally h been taking place, which left at least five people wounded. Eye-witnesses told local media that a Mandarin-speaking man attacked people on Sunday shortly after shouting pro-Beijing slogans. Live foot showed Andrew Chiu, a local pro-democracy councillor, having his ear bitten off after trying to subdue attacker, while a second man was seen unconscious in a growing pool of blood as bystanders desperately tried to stem wounds to his back.

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Hong Kong suffers unrest

city has been rocked by months of unrest from protesters who say those rights are being rolled back by an increasingly authoritarian Chinese rule. Beijing warned on Friday after a four-day meeting of Communist Party leers that it would t tolerate any challenges to its authority over Hong Kong, while laying out plans to boost patriotism in city and change how its leer is chosen or removed. China Daily also ted that party plans to strengn Hong Kong's legal system to "safeguard national security". "Those Hong Kong residents whose lives have been disrupted by intensifying violence of intimidation - instigated and organized by those hoping to use Hong Kong as a means to destabilize nation - will be gl when life returns to rmal," newspaper said.

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