Very worrying developments, and reported in a measured way.
The US of A – like some other countries – has a long history of strategically meddling in and manipulating public unrest in foreign lands. In the 1940s, during the Second World War, African American GIs told natives of the Solomon Islands (which were at that time a British colony) that America was a racial paradise, and encouraged them to break their ties with Britain and embrace the USA instead. And during the First World War, Germany was quite supportive of revolution in Russia.