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HONG KONG (AP) — When the British handed Hong Kong to Beijing in 1997, it was promised...

Let's bring in naval intelligence officer, john jordan. we saw the video of the troops. they're in t-shirts, armed with not rifles but brooms, cleaning up debris from the protests. is that a troubling development and a he potential signal about what could come from beijing? >> yes, it is a troubling development. it's incremental, beijing imposing incremental pressure on the protesters in hong kong. article 14 of hong kong's basic law requires that liberation army troops stay in their bar racks unless requested for suppressing civil disorder or national disasters. now, china is calling this cle...

And you will not see this, george, in any other city in china. because china has one-party rule, the communist party, and no other political parties are allowed. so these kind of scenes, some of these people very critical of the central government. some people lobbying about completely different issues like workers rights, shorter working hours. or members of the fallen religious movement which is banned in china. they all kind of come out on this mosaic on this day which is allowed under hong kong's basic law, a mini constitution that it inherited during the handover from the british rule 20 ...