{
  "id": 16477288,
  "title": "The West’s double standard on global unrest",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/25/the-wests-double-standard-on-global-unrest",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-25T12:30:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3371928/wests-double-standard-global-unrest"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "In the early days of the student protests in France, mainstream Western media took the protesters’ claims about poor school facilities and declining resources at face value. Only when the violence spread across the country, and to some of its European neighbours, did people begin to ask whether deeper causes were at play. Leftists blame social problems, from the cost-of-living pressures linked to…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}