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Beijing Wants HK Police to Tighten Up

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Sep 05, 2013
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Beijing officials are moving to co-opt the Hong Kong police force in the effort to create problems for government critics, particularly those deemed unpatriotic. In the process they may be discouraging the police from going after triads, the organized crime gangs which are used from time to time by the Communist Party to do their dirty work.

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