It can be both Look at yellow vest, at one point you got shit in the glue like "yellow vest turns violent", of course antifa and shit One can really blend into the other ... That said I see 2 things: 1) China doing jack shit,like "go ahead nobody cares, just stay on your island" 2) The US doing jack shit, like "it's far anyway" ... Sounds like the protests are a mix of legit political demands, destructionism (if it can't be oursq it's nobody's sort of stuff), resulting in some sort of general clusterfuck And of course global and regional powers playing the waiting game, as in nobody gives a fuck about what the people on that rock think anyway, stakes are too high atm, it's tense