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Is there police from mainland China or are they local to HK? Would they always side with mainland interests?

Local HK police, of which most have a deep hatred towards the protestors since the 2014 Occupy and have been waiting for opportunities to carry out revenge. Such sentiments were on full display yesterday.

Police from HK, military forces from China (though they're not involved in these matters). But like in most civilized countries, the police is there to uphold current law and order, not to side with some national or political interest.

China Tiananmen square incident, the local military wouldn't get rid of protestors. The government had to get military further away to do it.

With Hong Kong, the government can't do it as the country is too small. The only option is Chinese military. If you say the Chinese military is there, then a massacre is inevitable.

Local HK police.

>Would they always side with mainland interests?

It's not as if HK has means to resist the PLA, so...more than likely, yes.

The HK police won't disobey its government. If they did, it'd give China an excuse to use its army in HK which would undoubtedly make things an order of magnitude worse.

for some reason, that sort of reminds me of Colony on netflix

From what I’ve read in British sources, there are persistent rumors about this but it’s all officially denied.

There is a regiment of PLA troops inside the SAR, but they are not supposed to police anything.

nope.. Only local HK police.

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