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    AFP News Agency‏Verified account @AFP 30 Sep 2019

    As celebrations start in Beijing to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of Communist China, pro-democracy protesters begin to rally in Hong Kong. By 8am pepper-spray was already being used. Local officials have had to move a flag-raising ceremony behind closed doorspic.twitter.com/p3oK6UjmVq

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      2. AFP News Agency‏Verified account @AFP 30 Sep 2019

        70 years of Communist rule in China. Click here -- http://u.afp.com/JEsX  -- for @AFP's quick photographic timeline and interactive graphicpic.twitter.com/O28gTNl1Xr

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      3. AFP News Agency‏Verified account @AFP 30 Sep 2019

        A flag-raising ceremony takes place in Hong Kong as China celebrates 70 years of Communist rule. Hong Kong pro-democracy protests expected today will be "very, very dangerous", police warnpic.twitter.com/HF40K9sAnu

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      4. AFP News Agency‏Verified account @AFP 30 Sep 2019

        One party: How communists rule in China http://u.afp.com/Japn pic.twitter.com/NXYZHuDsn7

        3 replies 16 retweets 15 likes
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      5. AFP News Agency‏Verified account @AFP 30 Sep 2019

        #BREAKING There is "no force that can stop the Chinese people and the Chinese nation forging ahead," President Xi says as celebrations begin for 70th anniversary of Communist Party rulepic.twitter.com/mHe0TI0zk2

        21 replies 44 retweets 97 likes
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      6. AFP News Agency‏Verified account @AFP 30 Sep 2019

        #UPDATE In Tiananmen, where Chairman Mao Zedong proclaimed the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949, President Xi extols the "Chinese dream" before huge military parade marking 70 years of Communist Party rule http://u.afp.com/Jap7 pic.twitter.com/czsnAyzPPf

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      7. AFP News Agency‏Verified account @AFP 30 Sep 2019

        Tensions high in Hong Kong as China marks 70 years of communist rule. Pro-democracy posters and Chinese flags in a tunnel in Hong Kong. Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam (C) attends the parade in Tiananmen Square in Beijing Tight security at China's Hong Kong liaison officepic.twitter.com/wQVGavf3UX

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      8. AFP News Agency‏Verified account @AFP 30 Sep 2019

        Security tight as pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong begin to march, vowing to overshadow anniversary celebrations marking 70 years of Communist Party rule in China http://u.afp.com/JaGG pic.twitter.com/l9OrzsCp7Q

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      9. AFP News Agency‏Verified account @AFP 30 Sep 2019

        #UPDATE The military show of force was followed by a pageant involving 100,000 civilians and 70 floats depicting China's greatest achievements http://u.afp.com/JaGQ pic.twitter.com/p0vZPTmVE2

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      10. AFP News Agency‏Verified account @AFP 1 Oct 2019

        As part of China's 70th anniversary celebrations, here is a sense of the scale of the parade from the sidelines. Some 15,000 soldiers took part, with an estimated 100,000 civilians and 70 floats also marching, and 70,000 doves and 70,000 balloons releasedpic.twitter.com/Mhrq9T1O5b

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      2. Raoul Duke‏ @GonzoFinance 30 Sep 2019
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        #commiespic.twitter.com/uDc2NahEWh

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