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Bayern Munich target Leroy Sane scored twice, Raheem Sterling got one and set up two more and teenagers Nabil Touaizi and Iker Pozo were also on the score-sheet as Pep Guardiola's City outclassed the Hong Kong league side.
In the 21st minute of each half, marking an attack by a stick-wielding mob on July 21, fans struck up "Do You Hear the People Sing", the Les Miserables song which has been adopted as a protest anthem, followed by loud chants of "Free Hong Kong!"
One banner unfurled among the 20,926-strong Hong Kong Stadium crowd said: "No China extradition, HK = police state, please save HK!!"
It follows weeks of protests in the semi-autonomous territory sparked by a government bid, since shelved, to allow extradition to mainland China for certain offences.
The protests, which have morphed into demonstrations for democratic reform and a halt to sliding freedoms, have seen sporadic clashes including Sunday's attack by suspected triad gangsters which left dozens wounded.
"Sometimes it's a shame this kind of things happen but we were quite well, we moved around Hong Kong and nothing happened and today the game was quite normal," Guardiola said.
"When both sides (protesters and government) are ready and able to find a solution, that is going to happen."