Six prominent Chinese-language newspapers in Hong Kong on November 13, ran the same ad on their front page calling for people to “oppose rioting,” a day after intense clashes between protesters and police at a university campus. The ads said: “Use your vote to oppose rioting and save Hong Kong”, using an oft-repeated label used by Chinese and Hong Kong officials describing protesters as “rioters.” The six newspapers are the Wen Wei Po, Ming Pao, Sing Tao Daily, Hong Kong Economic Journal, Hong Kong Economic Times, and the Oriental Daily News.

(Comment: According to a 2015 investigative report by Next Magazine, a Hong Kong publication, China’s Liaison Office—Beijing’s representative office in Hong Kong—fully owns a shell company in the Province of Guangdong, which also owns Wen Wei Po. The report also said the office owns Sino United Publishing, a Hong Kong company that dominates the city’s book publishing industry with a reported market share of 80 percent. Ming Pao and Sing Tao are two Chinese media initially established in Hong Kong as an independent voice, but have since fallen under Beijing’s influence, according to a 2018 Hoover Institute report.)