The situation in Hong Kong appears to be getting out of hand, especially when looking at it from afar.
Every day, new videos circulate on social media - black-shirted youths carrying umbrellas on the move to another showdown, a group in white wielding metal rods attacking commuters at a train station, policemen with pepper sprays and firing rubber bullets and tear gas.
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