Of course, these two things can both be true, but the US-backed color revolutionaries are louder due to their funding. Nepal's geography sort of dooms it to being a shithole unless China pours a ton of money into it, which they haven't gotten around to yet.

Thus, this is just like the Hong Kong protests, where some of the protesters were legitimately pissed over high living costs, which was not really a problem caused by the Chinese, but rather the native Hong Kong government. And then the U.S.-backed color revolutionaries stirred it up into way bigger shit by just conducting tons of domestic terrorism.

Once the Nepal-China railway is finished tunneling through the Himalayas, Nepali lives will get better. Let's just hope that this color revolution doesn't ruin that opportunity forever.