US officials will go to Guatemala to "address root causes of migration in the region and build a more hopeful future in the region."

If they are sincere about this, the US could alleviate a lot of suffering that it helped to cause. But one can't take for granted that they are sincere.

The UK is considering putting asylum seekers into an island prison, perhaps forever.

The wrecker has endorsed theft of elections by pushing to replace Raffensperger with an election official that endorses theft as well as voter-suppression.

China sent 200 vessels (boats, I suppose, rather than ships) to a reef in disputed waters as a provocation against the Philippines.

I don't know whether it is true, as claimed, that their crews are militias, but if they aren't this time, they will be in the future.

China has an advantage in this confrontation because it can mass its forces at any point, whereas the countries it is attacking cannot easily do so.

Sending 200 probably armed small vessels separately into Philippine waters at once would be even more troublesome.

A large protest was held in Bristol UK repression of protests and the plans to restrict them more. The protesters attacked cops violently and injured some severely.

Bristol is a rather leftish city which elects a Green representative to Parliament, so it makes sense that a big protest would happen there, and that local officials would support the purpose.

I expect the violence did harm to the cause of defending the right to protest, because it will allow the cops (who did not, it seems, act like thugs on this occasion) a justification for the claim they need more powers — which would enable the to repress nonviolent protests more in the future,

It is not a valid justification, but they will make use of it anyway.

The left needs to adopt disciplined nonviolence, such as it employed effectively in the 60s and 70s in the US, and reject "black bloc" tactics. As long as it does not, it is vulnerable both to hot-headded supporters and to right-wing provocateurs.