This footage shows some of the intense clashes between police and protesters during the APEC 2022 summit in Thailand this week.

The trouble flared on November 17 and November 18 while leaders from across Asia were gathering in Bangkok for the political and trade event.

Demonstrators were against the lavish junket and the attendance of China dictator Xi Jinping.

A number of demonstrators were injured as well as a Reuters photographer struck in the eye by a glass bottle thrown from a crowd of riot police.

The chaos erupted when crowds of protesters gathering at the Democracy Monument in the capital Bangkok were blocked from reaching the entrance of the building where leaders from across Asia are gathered for event on Friday November 18.

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

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

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

Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt had asked the demonstrators to refrain from disrupting the convention.