‘Be calm and safe!’: Donald Trump confirms China moving troops to Hong Kong border HKFP 20190814

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《環球時報》說調動福建的PLA到新界邊境。

這是在利用閩粵械鬥的歷史，避免廣東PLA因為語言等原因而手下留情。一如六四，調動蒙古軍來鎮壓。而，廣東＝南部戰區，福建＝東部戰區。

TRUMP  2019/08/14

Our Intelligence has informed us that the Chinese Government is moving troops to the Border with Hong Kong.  Everyone should be calm and safe!

GLOBAL TIMES  2019/08/12

The People’s Armed Police have been assembling in Shenzhen, a city bordering Hong Kong, in advance of apparent large-scale exercises, videos obtained by the Global Times have shown.

‘Be calm and safe!’: Donald Trump confirms China moving troops to Hong Kong border    HKFP 20190814

US intelligence has confirmed that China is moving troops to the border with Hong Kong, US President Donald Trump said Tuesday, appealing for calm amid intensifying pro-democracy protests in the semi-autonomous financial hub.

Trump relayed the intelligence report in a tweet as protesters paralyzed Hong Kong airport for a second day in defiance of the city’s leaders.

“Our Intelligence has informed us that the Chinese Government is moving troops to the Border with Hong Kong.  Everyone should ‘be calm and safe!” Trump said in a tweet.

Chinese state and social media had earlier aired video of security forces gathering across the border from the enclave, which has been rocked by unrest for ten weeks.

The Global Times and the People’s Daily ran a minute-long video compiling clips of armored personnel carriers and troop carriers purportedly driving to Shenzhen, which borders HongKong.

The video shows roughly two dozen armored carriers apparently driving through the southern city of Guangzhou and other troop carriers leaving eastern Fujian province.

Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the state-run Global Times, said on social media that the military presence is a sign that if the situation in Hong Kong doesn’t improve, China will intervene.

Speaking to reporters in Morristown, New Jersey, Trump called the situation in Hong Kong”very tricky.”

“I hope it works out peacefully, nobody gets hurt, nobody gets killed,” he said.