POLICE ARREST STABBING SUSPECT AFTER PROTESTS

Hong Kong police arrested a 24-year-old man at the airport early on Thursday on suspicion of stabbing and wounding an officer during a protest against a new national security law imposed by Beijing on the financial hub.

The arrest followed protests Wednesday in which police fired water cannons and tear gas and arrested more than 300 people as demonstrators defied the sweeping security legislation introduced by China this week.

U.S. Vice-president Mike Pence said the new law was a betrayal of the Sino-british agreement on Hong Kong’s future after it returned to Chinese rule in 1997.

“The national security law that China passed and now is imposing on Hong Kong is ... a betrayal of the international agreement that they signed, and ultimately it’s unacceptable to freedom-loving people around the world,” he told CNBC.