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Hong Kong: Powder keg of protests as city hosts top Chinese official
Hong Kong police clash with anti-Beijing protesters who took to the streets during the three-day visit of senior Chinese official Zhang Dejiang on Wednesday, May 18, 2016.
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Pro-democracy protests claim China's trying to increase its grip on the city, and fear that Hong Kong's independence from Chinese rule is being eroded.
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Zhang is the Chairman of China's National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee. Hong Kong officials ramped up security for his visit amid threats of protests. Zhang's in Hong Kong to attend the inaugural Belt and Road Summit to explore closer ties between Hong Kong and the mainland.
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After arriving in the Special Administrative Region of China, Zhang said: "I come with the care of the central government and all people in the country for Hong Kong. I believe it will be fruitful."
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Firemen take down a banner that reads "I want genuine universal suffrage." Pro-democracy activists unfurled the banner along with another one along the road from the airport where Zhang's motorcade would have passed that said "End of the Communist Party dictatorship."
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City authorities rolled out a massive security operation to ensure Zhang's visit wasn't marred by protests.
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Hong Kong police try to confiscate a flag during a League of Social Democrats protest outside the Central Government Headquarters in Hong Kong, on the first day of Zhang Dejiang's visit, Tuesday, May 17.
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Hong Kong pro-democracy activists hold pictures of Zhang, as well as images of detained Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo and his wife Liu Xia, as they march to Government House on May 17.
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Huge crowd-control barriers were erected near the hotel where Zhang is staying. Thousands of police have been assigned to ensure any protests are quickly snuffed out.
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Ahead of Zhang's arrival, Hong Kong maintenance workers glued down the pavement to prevent a repeat of past protests when demonstrators ripped up bricks to throw at police.