{"id":10042,"date":"2014-10-02T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=10042"},"modified":"2014-10-02T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T05:30:00","slug":"tensions-mount-with-hongkongstudents-resolve-scholarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2014\/10\/tensions-mount-with-hongkongstudents-resolve-scholarism\/","title":{"rendered":"Tensions mount with #HongKongStudents resolve #scholarism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wall Street Journal, China Real Time<\/a>, <\/em>October 3, 2014– Toward evening on the seventh day of protests that have rocked Hong Kong, fears grew of a confrontation. Protesters were giving the city\u2019s chief executive until midnight to resign and said they would block him from going to work; police vowed to stop them. How the next hours played out; times are approximate:<\/em><\/p>\n

5 p.m. Thursday:<\/strong>\u00a0Crowds swell outside the offices of Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying. Photos on social media show police carrying supplies of rubber bullets and tear gas into the building.\u00a0 Students block a van from entering the compound.<\/p>\n

6 p.m.<\/strong>\u00a0Police spokesman Steve Hui says police is prepared to take \u201cresolute\u201d measures.<\/p>\n

7 p.m.<\/strong>\u00a0Organizers tell people with children and pets to clear the area around the chief executive\u2019s office and the adjacent People\u2019s Liberation Army complex. Students start donning gas masks and goggles. \u201cI\u2019m afraid, just hoping for the best,\u201d says student Ashley Yeung, 22, who was at the protest on Sunday when tear gas was fired into the crowd by riot police.<\/p>\n

8 p.m.<\/strong>\u00a0Student leader Joshua Wong pleads for calm on Twitter: \u201cThose we oppose are crazy. We don\u2019t want to be mad like them.\u201d<\/p>\n

9 p.m.<\/strong>\u00a0The Hong Kong Federation of Students, one of the student groups leading the protests, posts an open letter on Facebook to Carrie Lam, the No. 2 official in the Hong Kong government, seeking negotiations.<\/p>\n

Some protesters near a PLA garrison on Hong Kong island block traffic but others try to stop them, \u201cIt\u2019s the only road Hong Kong has!\u201d shouts one woman through a loudspeaker.<\/p>\n

10 p.m.<\/strong>\u00a0Crowds are now huge at the government buildings. Police again warn protesters not to charge police lines.<\/p>\n

11 p.m.<\/strong>\u00a0As the midnight deadline protesters have set for Mr. Leung to resign approaches, the mood is apprehensive but crowds are orderly: They have heard Mr. Leung will speak and are waiting. Periodically chants erupt when student leaders speak.<\/p>\n

11:30 p.m.<\/strong>\u00a0The presidents of the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong appear at the government buildings to appeal for calm.<\/p>\n

Midnight:<\/strong>\u00a0The word from the chief executive mere minutes before midnight: He will appoint Ms. Lam, to meet with student protesters. He won\u2019t resign.<\/p>\n

Early morning hours Friday:<\/strong>\u00a0Crowds start to disperse but many stay, saying they\u2019re far from satisfied. \u201cWhat they said was so distant from what we wanted,\u201d says 26-year old Lawrence Chak, who still plans to spend the night with his friends at the main protest site.<\/p>\n

The leaders of Occupy Central, two college professors and a Baptist minister, welcome talks between students and the government, but say the chief executive must still step down.<\/p>\n

As\u00a0many protesters sleep on the lawns and sidewalks<\/a>, others sit with textbooks on their lap, trying to catch up with their studies after days of protesting.<\/p>\n

5 a.m.<\/strong>\u00a0Some protesters\u00a0holding red traffic sticks<\/a>\u00a0try to prevent others from blocking the main roads outside the government buildings as morning nears and people start going to work after a two-day holiday.<\/p>\n

Police plead for protesters to allow through a truck they say is loaded with food for police officers. Protesters shout back that they will pass the food in: \u201cWe can give you what you need\u2013food, not the truck.\u201d<\/p>\n

8:30 a.m.<\/strong>\u00a0The Hong Kong government says the city\u2019s government offices will be temporarily closed.<\/p>\n

9:30 a.m.<\/strong>\u00a0Hong Kong stocks fall 1.2% as markets open after a two-day holiday and are down around 4.6% on the week, with crowds still in the street and many government workers unable to work normally.<\/p>\n

Read More:\u00a0Wall Street Journal, China Real Time<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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