China's military will make even greater new contributions to maintaining Hong Kong's prosperity and stability, state news reported the PLA garrison in the territory as saying.
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has also not ruled out the possibilityShe said in a news briefing on Tuesday that violence was becoming more serious but was confident the Government could handle the crisis itself.The Civil Human Rights Front, the organiser of previous mass protests in Hong Kong that they said attracted up to 2 million people, plans a rally heading towards Beijing's main representative office in Hong Kong on Saturday, although the protest has not yet received a police permit.
Unrest escalated in mid-June over a now-suspended extradition bill that would have allowed people to be sent to mainland China for trial in Communist Party-controlled courts. It has since evolved into calls for greater democracy under the"one country, two systems" formula under which Hong Kong has been run since 1997, guaranteeing freedoms not enjoyed on the mainland that include an independent judiciary.
The protests in the Asian financial hub have posed the biggest challenge for Communist Party rulers in Beijing since President Xi Jinping took power in 2012. Beijing is eager to quell the unrest before the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, when Mr Xi will oversee a large military parade in the Chinese capital.
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