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1·19 hours agoThis is not about ‘leverage’ but a stance on human rights. But, more importantly, it’s a reason why China is not a reliable partner for Canada.
It’s also important that the UAE is also allegedly supporting crimes against humanity and genocide in China’s Xinjiang region. There is ample evidence for Beijing’s atrocities against Uyghurs as you may know (you’ll find a lot of very reliable sources across the web, some of them even here as I have read).
So Canada must not look only at Sudan but also China.
It is also important in this context that Chinese military was reportedly hosted at base in the UAE. The UAE and China have close military ties and held a joint air force drill in China’s Xinjiang region.
6·2 days agodo we(legally) need to protest against each new version over and over again?
Not a legal expert, but I am afraid that’s how it is …
You may wish to write your MEP(s):
Aha …
Chinese robotaxi operator Pony.ai says one of its cars caught fire in Shanghai
Pony.ai Recalls Autonomous Driving Software After Crash in California
Europe needs to build that itself, as much as it needs to ‘re-industrialize.’ The safest and best place to produce things is in Europe as its environmental and social rules are more developed as elsewhere: https://feddit.uk/c/buyeuropean
This is not bullying but legitimate critique. The state that is often bulling its neighbors is elsewhere.
Yeah, the world should rather hail the reasonable people of the governments who are refusing to exit from fossil fuels. These Europeans and their allies get it all wrong (s/, just to be safe).
2·3 days agoYeah, China, India, and some oil states refuse to end fossil fuels, but ‘Europe bad’ despite it does the opposite …
Exactly. There is no option for Europe other than developing its own technology. https://feddit.uk/c/buyeuropean
… late in the second week Colombia upstaged their hosts when it announced the creation of an initiative whereby a group of countries would meet to plan the phase out of fossil fuels. The 24-country bloc will meet next April in Santa Marta for a conference co-hosted by Colombia and the Netherlands. Other participating countries include Australia, Austria, Belgium, Cambodia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Luxembourg, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Micronesia, Nepal, Panama, Spain, Slovenia, Vanuatu and Tuvalu.
So basically it is Latin America, Europe, and Island Nations that take serious action to phase out fossil fuels.
The world’s two largest polluters - China and the U.S. - as well as Russia and some oil-producing countries in the Middle East are doing business as usual.
I mean all those who have said that China is leading in the fight against climate change shall now be silent. If you read the reports on the COP it is obvious that Beijing is interested in money and in money only.
The BBC wrote on Beijing;s pavillon at the COP 30 in Brazil that China ramps up charm offensive with extra pandas:
Was it the many copies of Xi Jinping’s speeches on sale? Or the ubiquitous cuddly pandas?
Perhaps it was the much-needed fans here for the heat and humidity outside. Whatever the reason, China’s pavilion here proved a huge draw, with long queues forming of people keen to get their hands on Chinese tat.
The pandas definitely seem to be part of the charm offensive from the world’s biggest emitter of planet-warming carbon.
Many expected China to take a bigger leadership role – but the world’s dominant producer of renewable technology has a different view.
China was content to sit quietly and support others who want to slow down the transition away from fossil fuels like India and Saudi Arabia. It is the world’s biggest coal producer after all.
Despite their current power and size, it seems to still suit China to play the role of the developing country that it was when the UN climate body was formed back in 1992. With extra pandas!
31·9 days agoThank you for your respectful and sophisticated opinion.
51·10 days agoA similar case recently happened in Germany, where the country’s authorities face heavy criticism after admitting that a 56-year-old Uyghur asylum-seeker was mistakenly put on a plane to China instead of to Turkey.
According to reports (one is here), the woman, Reziwanguli Baikeli, had fled China’s Xinjiang region in 2017, lived in Turkey for several years and joined her daughter in Germany in 2024. Uyghurs are recognised by Germany as a group at extreme risk of persecution; informal guidance says they should not be returned to China.
Experts call for Germany (and possibly the whole of Europe) for a federal “white list” of countries to which deportations are categorically barred, similar to policies already used in Sweden and the Netherlands.
A similar case recently happened in Germany, where the country’s authorities face heavy criticism after admitting that a 56-year-old Uyghur asylum-seeker was mistakenly put on a plane to China instead of to Turkey.
According to reports (one is here), the woman, Reziwanguli Baikeli, had fled China’s Xinjiang region in 2017, lived in Turkey for several years and joined her daughter in Germany in 2024. Uyghurs are recognised by Germany as a group at extreme risk of persecution; informal guidance says they should not be returned to China.
Experts call for Germany (and possibly the whole of Europe) for a federal “white list” of countries to which deportations are categorically barred, similar to policies already used in Sweden and the Netherlands.
Yeah, mainland China - the other China, so to say - shows a similar stance. Despite critical voices of Beijing regarding Israel’s war in Gaza, ties between China and Israel have in many ways proven resilient. Bilateral trade rose to USD 16.3 billion in 2024, up almost 12% from 2023, for example.
Despite Israel having banned Chinese suppliers from sensitive military procurement, commercial ties improved as trade data shows. In addition to U.S. companies, Chinese technology firms are a decisive supplier of Israel surveillance tech in Gaza and the West Bank (you’d easily find many reports on the web about that).
8·10 days agoYeah, mainland China - the other China, so to say - shows a similar stance. Despite critical voices of Beijing regarding Israel’s war in Gaza, ties between China and Israel have in many ways proven resilient. Bilateral trade rose to USD 16.3 billion in 2024, up almost 12% from 2023, for example.
Despite Israel having banned Chinese suppliers from sensitive military procurement, commercial ties improved as trade data shows. In addition to U.S. companies, Chinese technology firms are a decisive supplier of Israel surveillance tech in Gaza and the West Bank (you’d easily find many reports on the web about that).
1·10 days agoDidn’t you post a similar report today?
The pressure on car markets are not limited to the UK. China’s BYD literally warned of a ‘bloodbath’ in its Chinese domestic market, and we have been watching mass layoffs and bankruptcies in China, Europe, the U.S. in recent years.
Didn’t you post a similar report today?
The pressure on car markets are not limited to the UK. China’s BYD literally warned of a ‘bloodbath’ in its Chinese domestic market, and we have been watching mass layoffs and bankruptcies in China, Europe, the U.S. in recent years.
‘PPC Land’ (pay-per-click ?) is publishing solely AI-generated content.
As early as 2012, one report wrote on Chinese Fascism’s Global Consequences:
Last year, under, China’s Turn to Fascist Rule, another analysis reads,
There are many more.