New | 'Doomed' protests will not change Beijing's decision on political reform, warns Chinese state paper

Chinese state media went after Occupy Central with both barrels after a night of chaos that saw police in riot gear fire tear gas at pro-democracy protesters.

“As Chinese mainlanders, we feel sorrow over the chaos in Hong Kong on Sunday,” the editorial said. “Radical opposition forces in Hong Kong should be blamed.”

Responding to comparisons on social media and in the international and local press between the protests and the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, the paper claimed commentators were attempting “to mislead and stir up Hong Kong society.”

“The radical activists are doomed. Opposition groups know well it’s impossible to alter the decision of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on Hong Kong’s political reform plan.”