Now, as images rioting in the US are seen around the world, Chinese critics have seized on the opportunity to divert attention away from Beijing’s stifling of Hong Kong’s freedoms – and for payback.

The protests were sparked by the death of George Floyd, a black man who died May 25 at the hands of a white policeman in Minneapolis, but in numerous instances have been hijacked by elements bent on looting, vandalism and arson. “Groups of outside radicals and agitators are exploiting the situation to pursue their own separate, violent, and extremist agenda,” Attorney General Bill Barr said on Sunday.

Over the weekend, State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus posted a tweet calling China’s plan to impose a security law on Hong Kong “a pivotal moment” and adding, “Freedom loving people around the world must stand with the rule of law and hold to account the Chinese Communist Party, which has flagrantly broken its promises to the people of Hong Kong.”

A couple of hours later, Ortagus’ Chinese counterpart, Hua Chunying, retweeted that message, adding her own pointed comment: “I can’t breathe.” Those were reportedly some of Floyd’s last words, captured on camera as a policeman knelt on his neck. CCP media outlets weighed in, characterizing what law enforcement are dealing with on American streets as comeuppance for US criticism of Chinese actions in Hong Kong.

Already deployed in multiple states, over 10,000 guardsmen are scheduled to flood Minneapolis streets, representing the first time in its 164-year history that the organization has been fully mobilized. They have been authorized to carry live ammunition. While Waltz’s actions might appear drastic, it appears he is actually a moderating influence, as Washington is pushing him to put active duty military on the streets.

“I think it’s really important again for folks to think about the uniqueness of our nation our protecting civil liberties is to make sure that civilian control of the military and especially inside the United States is carried out by civilians, by citizen soldiers by National Guard,” he said.

Do you think that it is just a coincidence that so many of our young people are completely and utterly lawless? We raised them in a completely upside down society that says that good is evil and evil is good, and so the way that they are behaving now shouldn’t surprise us at all. If our young people truly wanted to honor George Floyd, looting retail stores is definitely not the way to do it. Sadly, many are taking advantage of this crisis to go on a crime spree, and we are witnessing looting on a scale that is unlike anything we have ever seen before in this country.

Where else in the entire world would such a thing be permitted to happen? Once upon a time we thought of ourselves as a shining example for the rest of the planet, but now the only example we are setting is a bad one. So many of these young people have hearts that have gone completely ice cold, and they don’t seem to have respect for even the most basic human values.

Since then both armies have rushed in thousands of reinforcements. Indian analysts say that China has beefed up its forces with dump trucks, excavators, troop carriers, artillery and armored vehicles and that China is now occupying Indian territory. Nobody thinks China and India are about to go to war. But the escalating buildup has turned into their most serious confrontation since 2017 and may be a sign of more trouble to come as the world’s two most populous countries increasingly bump up against each other in one of the bleakest and most remote borderlands on earth.

With the world consumed by the coronavirus pandemic, China has acted forcefully to defend its territorial claims, including in the Himalayas. In recent weeks, the Chinese have sunk a Vietnamese fishing boat in the South China Sea; swarmed a Malaysian offshore oil rig; menaced Taiwan; and severely tightened their grip on the semiautonomous region of Hong Kong.

The confrontation with India “fits a broader pattern of Chinese assertiveness, ” said Tanvi Madan, director of the India Project at the Brookings Institution in Washington, noting that it was the fourth flare-up since China’s authoritarian leader, Xi Jinping, rose to power at the end of 2012.

But his stance pales into comparison to that of his predecessor Benedict, who controversially stepped down as Pope in 2013 to pave the way for the Francis era. When the world suffered as a result of the 2008 recession, the Vatican - then under the leadership of Benedict - called for an overhaul of the financial markets across the globe to ensure a similar catastrophe was not felt again.

In a 2011-released document called 'Towards Reforming the International Financial and Monetary Systems in the Context of a Global Public Authority', the Catholic Church warned that if the shift towards "solidarity among rich and poor nations" was not found, the world would be destined for a "climate of growing hostility and even violence".

However, Lynda Telford - author of 'Women of the Vatican - Female Power in a Male World' - has claimed Francis must ignore anything Benedict has done in the past. Reports have continually circulated regarding a feud between Francis and Benedict, ever since Benedict resigned to become the first living Pope since the 1400s to stand down.

Since his departure, Benedict has remained in the Vatican, with many observers alleging he has continued to exert his traditionalist values, which contradict the liberal agenda Francis is attempting to create.

So far, at least 40 US cities have imposed curfews, the National Guard has been activated in at least 15 states, and at least 4,100 people have been arrested. On Sunday night, the violence in Washington DC became so alarming that President Trump was actually rushed to a secret bunker under the White House… This isn’t about George Floyd any more. At this point, the protests have been taken over by radical leftists that are seeking to use this crisis as an opportunity to promote violence.

And others are simply taking advantage of the cover provided by these protests to commit crimes that they wouldn’t normally be able to commit. What is actually happening is that our country is literally coming apart at the seams, and a lot of us have been warning that this would happen for many, many years. Of course these riots come at a time when our nation is already dealing with a huge global pandemic and a historic economic collapse… the truth is that time is running out for America, and there is no future for our once great nation if we stay on our present course.

Barr addressed the violent riots wreaking havoc on several cities across the country as authorities gear up for another night of mayhem. Many, including President Donald Trump, have pointed out that the protests-turned-riots are organized by outside agitators looking to fan the flames and heighten civil unrest.

“With the rioting that is occurring in many of our cities around the country, the voices of peaceful and legitimate protest have been hijacked by violent radical elements,” Barr said in a statement on Sunday, stressing that these groups of “outside radicals and agitators are exploiting the situation to pursue their own separate, violent, and extremist agenda.”

These violent groups seek to divide, Barr continued, warning that federal law enforcement actions will be “directed at apprehending and charging the violent radical agitators who have hijacked peaceful protest and are engaged in violations of federal law.” Additionally, Barr classified the violence carried out by Antifa “and other similar groups” as domestic terrorism and vowed that it will be “treated accordingly.”

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has bemoaned a “lack of leadership” during the world’s worst series of crises since 1945. “Where we see power, we sometimes do not see the necessary leadership,” he said recently.

AFP reports even after more than two months of negotiations, the 15 Security Council members are still unable to reach agreement on a resolution supporting a call from Gutteres for a global cease-fire while the world battles the Chinese coronavirus.

At the UN, there is a sense the globalist body is drifting and dysfunctional, even as it continues to plead for more money to fund its operations: Trouble is, nobody is listening to a word the UN says, even as it burns through those member financial contributions and a yearly budget of $3,073,830,500 it approved for itself to cover the year 2020.

You cannot be blamed if you thought the number was closer to 250 or 300. Moreover, you cannot be blamed if you thought the 300 AR-15 owners were toothless, old, white, racists living on some isolated, off-the-grid piece of property deep in the heart of the South. But as it turns out, AR-15s are owned by black people and white people, and by all skin colors in between. And there are WAY MORE than a couple hundred in circulation. On August 31, 2018, Breitbart News reported more than nine million AR-15s were manufactured for sale in the US under Barack Obama alone.

And AR-15s are not just for men. On November 4, 2019, Breitbart News reported on a pregnant Florida woman who used an AR-15 to kill an alleged home intruder while her husband was under attack.

So when Joe Biden and other Democrats demonize AR-15s as “assault weapons” and campaign on taking them from the American people or at least ending their sales, remember the feelings you have right now; the feelings of wanting a tool you can keep in your house to protect your family in times of civil violence and unrest. And also remember those black business owners and that pregnant Florida woman, who saved her husband’s life.

Again, there are over 16 million privately-owned AR-15s in this country and after last night – after watching the wanton destruction and violence in city after city – perhaps you better understand why Americans own them.

Thousands gathered in central London on Sunday to offer support for American demonstrators. Chanting “No justice! No peace!” and waving placards with the words “How many more?” at Trafalgar Square, the protesters ignored UK government rules banning crowds because of the pandemic. Police didn’t stop them. Demonstrators then marched to the US Embassy, where a long line of officers surrounded the building.

Germany’s top-selling Bild newspaper on Sunday carried the sensational headline “This killer-cop set America ablaze” with an arrow pointing to a photo of now-fired police officer Derek Chauvin, who has been charged with third-degree murder in Floyd’s death, with his knee on Floyd’s neck. The newspaper’s story reported “scenes like out of a civil war.”

In Italy, the Corriere della Sera newspaper’s senior US correspondent Massimo Gaggi wrote that the reaction to Floyd’s killing was “different” than previous cases of black Americans killed by police and the ensuring violence. “There are exasperated black movements that no longer preach nonviolent resistance,” Gaggi wrote, noting the Minnesota governor’s warning that “anarchist and white supremacy groups are trying to fuel the chaos.″

In countries with authoritarian governments, state-controlled media have been highlighting the chaos and violence of the US demonstrations, in part to undermine American officials’ criticism of their own nations.

In China, the protests are being viewed through the prism of US government criticism of China’s crackdown on anti-government protests in Hong Kong. Hu Xijin, the editor of the state-owned Global Times newspaper, tweeted that US officials can now see protests out their own windows: “I want to ask Speaker Pelosi and Secretary Pompeo: Should Beijing support protests in the US, like you glorified rioters in Hong Kong?”

Russia accused the United States of “systemic problems in the human rights sphere.″ It denounced Floyd’s death as the latest in a series of police violence against African-Americans. “This incident is far from the first in a series of lawless conduct and unjustified violence from US law enforcement,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “American police commit such high-profile crimes all too often.’’

Curfews were enacted in more than two dozen cities and the National Guard was summoned in at least 12 states and the District of Columbia as officials pleaded for peace. But mayhem convulsed the country, leaving scores of police officers and protesters injured and parts of America smouldering.

Some of President Donald Trump's allies are urging him to address the nation about the intensifying unrest. Trump's presumptive Democratic rival, former vice president Joe Biden, released his own statement condemning the violence that followed the in-custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

The unrest spread to cities large and small, including Ferguson, Missouri, which was rocked by violent protests in 2014 after a white police officer shot and killed a young black man, Michael Brown.

Federal buildings in the nation's capital were vandalized, and clashes erupted for a second day between Secret Service agents and demonstrators outside the White House.

The mayor of Richmond, Virginia, said a curfew will be imposed starting Sunday night after protesters targeted the city's symbols of history - a scene repeated in Charleston, South Carolina; Raleigh, North Carolina; and other Southern cities.

California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency and deployed the National Guard to Los Angeles as violent demonstrations raged. Mayor Eric Garcetti initially resisted asking for Guard troops because he did not want to evoke memories of the 1992 Rodney King riots, but conditions continued to deteriorate in the city.