Tag: Hong Kong Police

• Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 11:54 UTC

  Trump calls Hong Kong unrest “riots” and suggests it's an issue between HK and Beijing

  

  President Donald Trump has labelled recent protests in Hong Kong as “riots”, adopting the language used by Chinese authorities and suggesting that the United States would stay out of an issue that was “between Hong Kong and China”.

• Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 11:45 UTC

  US lawmakers urge Trump administration to suspend sales of crowd control equipment to Hong Kong

  

  A bipartisan group of US lawmakers on Friday urged the Trump administration to suspend future sales of munitions and crowd-control equipment to Hong Kong police which has been accused of using excessive force against anti-government protesters.