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Hong Kong-China Hostility Now Extends to FIFA

Nov 19, 2015
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The continuing political hostility between Hong Kong and Mainland China is now playing itself out on the football pitch, with Hong Kong and China fans at a Nov. 17 match separated on opposite sides of a Hong Kong stadium, using separate entrances and even separate toilets as the teams fought to a 0-0 tie in a crucial FIFA World Cup football qualifier.

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