Chairman Xi has chosen China's highest officials (aside from him) based on personal obedience to him.

In the short term, this will encourage grave mistakes. It will also very likely leave China with weak leaders whenever Xi dies or retires. But that could be ten years from now.

China's repression in Xinjiang and Hong Kong has brought China a well-deserved increase in world condemnation.

Can we envision a way that China could become a free, successful country?

Qatar made a start at reforming its unjust labor laws, but undid it when the big employers complained. Once again it is thoroughly unjust.

Parts of Australia blocked UN inspectors from visiting their prisons to check for respect for human rights.

Putin's tactic of destroying Ukraine's electric generators is having devastating effect. The drones and missiles are cheap, so the Putin forces fire many of them, day after day. Even though Ukraine destroys most of them, each power plant damaged will be out of service for weeks.

Putin's forces are also talking about blowing up a major dam near Kherson. This might destroy a lot of the infrastructure around Kherson, and maybe much of the city itself.

*YouTube and Facebook letting Brazil election disinformation spread, NGO says.* Global Witness produced many misleading ads and ads that attacked the election, and asked for approval from YouTube and Facebook. YouTube appeoved all of them, and Facebook many of them. The organization did not actually run the misleading ads.