The End IS Near

Hong Kong to Clear Streets This Week

As support for protests plummets.

Police in Hong Kong will move “within this week” to clear protesters from some sites they have been occupying for more than 50 days—just as a new local poll shows almost 70 percent of the public wants the movement to end. The South China Morning Post reports that police will help implement a court injunction against protesters occupying sites in the city’s Admiralty and Mong Kok districts. A source told the paper the operation would occur mostly between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on weekdays. Even those who have supported the democracy protests now appear to believe it’s time to end it: About 67 percent of all respondents in the poll said protesters should go home.