Hong Kong upheaval

The World

US officials today signaled that they’re preparing to remove Hong Kong’s special trade status, declaring that it is no longer autonomous from China. Just hours earlier the country’s protesters were facing off against police who fired pepper pellets at them. Hong Kong-based journalist Kris Cheng talks with host Marco Werman about the shifting tactics demonstrators and security forces are resorting to.

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