Zhang Xiaoming, the head of China's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs office, said today that Beijing 'has enough methods and enough strength to quickly quell any possible unrest'.
A senior Chinese official in charge of Hong Kong affairs has said that Beijing will intervene if the city's government fails to control the ongoing protests that have left the financial hub in 'the worst crisis' since its handover in 1997.
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