Live interview on BBC World News on 27 July 2019 regarding Hong Kong's anti-extradition protests spreading to the New Territories, of which Yuen Long, a thriving rural-turned-urban area, forms a part. The area retains a number of closely-knit traditonal village conclaves resistant to outside intruders.

The threat of militant protesters to "liberate" some of these villages by creating protest "Lennon Walls" led to a bloody clash with black-clad urban protesters in the night of the 21st. Many innocent passengers were beaten on a mass transit train where scuffles took place. Both sides were suspected of triad ("mafia") involvement. The police has been accused of collusion.

Inflamed by what happened in Yuen Long a week ago, the current protests claimed to amass some 280,000 protesters in defiance of Police refusal to issue a permit for the assembly. What seems to be happening is a serious breakdown of law and order. There are suspicions of involvement of foreign "agent provocateurs" with ulterior motives of destablizing the Hong Kong and Bejing governments. 

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