Both protesters and police are becoming more violent
been pushed to the brink of a total breakdown.” So warned a senior policeman on November 12th, after a 23rd successive weekend of unrest on Hong Kong’s streets, with no sign of the usual weekday lull. A day later the central government also put it starkly. Hong Kong, it said, was “sliding into the abyss of terrorism”.
Mrs Lam, who during the summer expressed eagerness for dialogue with her critics, now dismisses protesters as “enemies of the people”. The police label those who refuse to denounce the protesters as accomplices. But moderate politicians who eschew violence still mainly blame the authorities for the recent escalation.
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