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In a serious escalation of the Hong Kong crisis - the Hong Kong Government appears to be closing Hong Kong Airport. It is not yet known whether Chinese People's Armed [paramilitary] Police (PAP) from the Chinese mainland will soon clear the airport of protesters.
The PAP have been drilling with armoured vehicles (see ominous video) and massing just inside the Chinese border with Hong Kong.
See my earlier articles on the Hong Kong crisis of August 1, 2019 and July 1, 2019.
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Australia's government owned ABC News, August 12, 2019, 5pm Hong Kong time reports: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-12/hong-kong-airport-cancels-flights-as-protests-continue/11406806
In a serious escalation of the Hong Kong crisis - the Hong Kong Government appears to be closing Hong Kong Airport. It is not yet known whether Chinese People's Armed [paramilitary] Police (PAP) from the Chinese mainland will soon clear the airport of protesters.
The PAP have been drilling with armoured vehicles (see ominous video) and massing just inside the Chinese border with Hong Kong.
See my earlier articles on the Hong Kong crisis of August 1, 2019 and July 1, 2019.
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Australia's government owned ABC News, August 12, 2019, 5pm Hong Kong time reports: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-12/hong-kong-airport-cancels-flights-as-protests-continue/11406806
"Hong Kong Airport cancels
flights as protests continue
Hong Kong's airport has
cancelled all remaining flights as several thousand pro-democracy protesters
peacefully demonstrate at the terminal for a fourth day.
The international airport,
one of the world's busiest, said in a statement on Monday that the
demonstration has "seriously disrupted" airport operations.
All check-in services for departing flights have been suspended and only flights that have already completed the check-in process will move ahead the airport said.
All check-in services for departing flights have been suspended and only flights that have already completed the check-in process will move ahead the airport said.
Members of the public have
been warned to avoid the area.
Traffic on roads to the
airport was very congested and car park spaces were full, the airport said.
The increasingly violent
protests have plunged Chinese-ruled Hong Kong into its most serious crisis in
decades and presented a serious challenge to Beijing."
Courtesy Australia's ABC News based on News Agency Wires.
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About 7pm (Hong Kong time) August 12, 2019 Chinese state media organ Global Times ominously reported the release of the video (below).
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The video is apparently about training of China's paramilitary People's Armed Police (PAP) (who wear green and camouflage uniforms, unlike the blue-black uniforms of normal police).
The PAP, in wheeled armoured vehicles and trucks have been training, drilling and massing in the
large Chinese city of Shenzhen – just across the border from Hong Kong.
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