A female photographer was hit in the face by a glass bottle hurled from riot police lines as violence erupted outside the APEC summit in Thailand this morning.

Footage shows the missile being thrown from the line of riot police before it shattered into pieces upon striking the woman on the side of her face.

Crowds of demonstrators gathering at the Democracy Monument in the capital Bangkok were blocked from the entrance of the building where leaders from across Asia are gathered for the junket on Friday November 18.

Crowds fried chili peppers to blow the eye-stinging smoke toward officers before bottles were thrown, hitting one photographer in the face.

Riot cops with shields and helmets then charged at the protesters while firing rounds of rubber bullets at them, with one man collapsing on the ground.

Demonstrators marched through the city as leaders joined the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) 2022 summit which started in Bangkok on November 16.

China despot Xi Jinping - fresh from his clash at the G20 in Bali with notoriously liberal Canadian PM Justin Trudeau - arrived for the junket and warned of 'attempts to wage a new cold war'.

On Thursday, protesters clashed with riot police at the Asoke intersection in the centre of the Thai capital opposite the Soi Cowboy red-light strip where they criticized the military government.

They were joined by anti-China protesters carrying Winnie the Pooh teddies mocking Xi Jinping and calling for Hong Kong to be released from the tyranny of the mainland. One person was injured during clashes with police elsewhere in the city at an anti-APEC rally on the same day.

In a joint statement, the anti-government groups Thalufah and Ratsadon said they will be staging rallies denouncing the APEC summit.

They said: 'This summit has only government authorities and representatives from big-name capitalists that monopolize the industries.

'The APEC agreement would bind Thailand to pressure from other countries to implement policies that only benefit venture capitalists, while the public cannot access these benefits at all.'

The groups have secured a permit to hold protests at Lan Khon Muang, but were barred from gathering at the summit venue or the APEC delegates' hotels.

Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt has asked the demonstrators to refrain from disrupting the convention.
Thailand will be hosting the APEC summit this year, with world leaders gathering at Bangkok's Queen Sirikit National Convention Center between November 18 to 19.

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) stated that China's treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang had lead to the 'United States and several other foreign governments' branding China's actions in Xinjiang as 'genocide'.

The United Nations human rights office warned that the actions could 'constitute crimes against humanity'.