Read this summary of the linked article— > Indonesia is launching Southeast Asia’s first high-speed railway connecting the capital Jakarta with Bandung. Largely funded by China under its Belt and Road Initiative, the 142 km railway will cut travel time from 3 hours to around 40 minutes on the Whoosh bullet trains reaching speeds up to 350 kph. The $7.3 billion project was constructed by a Chinese-Indonesian joint venture and faced delays due to land and environmental issues. Indonesian President Joko Widodo championed the project and will inaugurate commercial operations on Monday. During test runs, Chinese and Indonesian leaders rode the trains and were comfortable even at top speeds.
> However, some experts question the financial viability of the high-speed rail for such a short route, as existing transportation is far cheaper.— Archive.today link to apnews.com— This comment was generated by a bot. Send comments and complaints via private message.
Given enough exposure to propaganda you can get the working masses to believe whatever you want.
I’ve seen this first hand in Hungary. 20 years ago everyone was pro EU. Kids such as myself were dreaming about eventually becoming part of the US of Europe & while that was never realistic, the adults were also hoping for a better future in the EU. Before Covid we finally -kind of- got that better future, things have improved tremendously, but slowly over time propaganda completely turned the public opinion around. I’m convinced most people really don’t like thinking on their own about issues… Now even my 10-12 year old nephews know & believe that Brussels is the worst city on Earth with all the people being certifiably insane there. These days whenever I hear people talk politics It always starts with ‘EU bad’… (Though I too am reluctant to talk about my views openly nowadays, so no chance of anyone hearing that)
Perhaps Taiwan or even the US should invest more in more targeted western propaganda to counteract the Chinese influence, but this just sounds horrible, I effin hate propaganda.
Here's a short summary of the linked article— > Mainstream Western media frequently engages in relentless China-bashing by regurgitating trivial or fabricated stories without evidence. Positive stories about China are rare. Reporting typically adheres to three ideas - that China is a threat, must be linked to all global issues, and that curbing its rise is legitimate despite hundreds of millions gaining a better life. This betrays an imperial view that the West decides which nations participate in the global economy. The media war is powered by technology in a new propaganda era, with Western outlets assuming conflict is inevitable rather than promoting multilateralism.
> Dismantling the dominance of Western media will be difficult but investing in alternative sources worldwide could provide more balanced views for local audiences.— Archive.today link to thediplomat.com— This comment was generated by a bot. Send comments and complaints via private message.
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Click here to see the summaryBrazil’s Supreme Court has rejected efforts to restrict native peoples’ rights to reservations on their ancestral lands. The Xokleng are an indigenous group numbering some 2,300 people living in the highlands of Santa Catarina state in southern Brazil. Anthropologists have documented how mercenaries hired to drive the Xokleng from their ancestral lands would collect the ears of those they killed to claim their reward. This particular case goes back to 2009 when the Xokleng were evicted by Santa Catarina’s Environmental Institute from lands which form part of a nature reserve. At the appeal in 2013, the Santa Catarina state authorities used a legal argument known as “marco temporal” (Portuguese for timeframe) to defend the eviction of the Xokleng. The Xokleng’s supporters said the decision ignored the fact that they had been forcibly removed decades earlier to make way for mostly German settlers. — Saved 75% of original text.
Click to expand> Secret documents reveal that the US helped Pakistan secure a controversial IMF bailout loan through a secret arms deal to supply weapons to Ukraine. Pakistan sold munitions to the US to support Ukraine’s military, which helped cover Pakistan’s financing gap that the IMF required to approve the loan. This prevented an economic crisis in Pakistan and allowed its new government, installed after the US reportedly encouraged removing Imran Khan, to crack down on dissent. However, the harsh IMF-mandated austerity measures sparked widespread protests. The weapons sales were brokered by a controversial arms dealer and helped Pakistan gain both economic relief from the loan as well as political goodwill from the US.
> However, questions remain about how secret military deals factored into the IMF’s assessment, and the crackdown has damaged Pakistan’s troubled democratic process in the aftermath of Khan’s ouster.
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Click to expand> China is spreading disinformation in Taiwan ahead of the upcoming presidential election in January. Much of the disinformation aims to portray America, not China, as Taiwan’s greatest threat. The disinformation narratives are finding their way into Taiwanese media and influencing talk shows. A study found that while Chinese actors help spread most of the US-skepticism narratives, over half appear to have Taiwanese origins, suggesting China piggybacks on existing fears in Taiwanese society. China has developed systematic means of spreading falsehoods on Taiwanese social media that then get amplified by mass media, sometimes within half a day. However, surveys still show Taiwanese are warier of China than America.
> The disinformation campaign underscores China’s insidious efforts to mislead Taiwanese voters, though its actual impact on the election remains uncertain.
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Click to expand> Germany banned a far-right group called Artgemeinschaft and carried out raids across the country. The group had about 150 members and sought to indoctrinate children with Nazi ideology using racist and anti-Semitic literature. Police raided 26 apartments belonging to 39 members of the group in 12 states. The interior minister said this was a further blow against right-wing extremism and those who still spread Nazi ideologies today. Germany has seen a rise in the number of people involved in the far-right extremist spectrum, according to a government report.
> It highlighted the disturbing nature of this group attempting to radicalize youth.
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Click here to see the summaryNewly obtained satellite images show the mass exodus of people from the Nagorno-Karabakh region, where fears of the ethnic cleansing of Armenians have escalated since Azerbaijani forces launched an offensive there last week. Other open source data collected by Bellingcat confirms ongoing Azerbaijani military presence in communities ethnic Armenians have fled from. Over 70,000 ethnic Armenians have fled since Baku launched the offensive last week according to Nazeli Baghdasaryan, the press secretary of Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Since the latest escalation of this long-running conflict, Bellingcat has monitored open source information in an attempt to understand the scale of this crisis and is consistently archiving footage from the area. A group of Azerbaijani soldiers also posed for a photo in front of Martakert’s regional administration building (40.215012, 46.826210) posted to TikTok on September 26, suggesting control of the city centre. An additional video from Charekdar shows Azerbaijani soldiers and an armoured vehicle firing in the direction of a group of houses (40.137779, 46.344075), with the 13th-century Charektar Monastery visible on a hilltop above. — Saved 83% of original text.
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Click here to see the summaryA 32-year-old Rotterdam resident has been arrested following two shooting incidents in the Dutch city, which resulted in multiple fatalities, Rotterdam police said Thursday. “The two shooting incidents in Rotterdam have resulted in fatalities. We will first inform family and relatives and will explain more later,” the city’s police said in a statement on X, formerly Twitter. The number of fatalities is currently unknown. This is a breaking story, more to follow… — Saved 0% of original text.
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Click here to see the summaryAn estimate from the Yale School of Public Health puts the number of Ukrainian children that have been displaced or deported since the war began in the hundreds of thousands, including at least 6,000 who have been held in a series of Russian camps and ordered to undergo “re-education” programs to make their personal and political views more pro-Russia. Russia operates at least 43 known facilities dedicated to providing “re-education,” military training, and pro-Russia academic instruction to Ukrainian children forcibly removed from their homes, the Yale report indicated. Children who have been rescued from the camps describe being forbidden to speak Ukrainian, being forced to listen to the Russian national anthem repeatedly, and being lied to and told their parents had abandoned them, according to firsthand accounts collected by the “Children of War” project compiled by Ukraine’s Ministry of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories, established in 2016 following Russia’s annexation of Crimea. In recent months, UN representatives of multiple countries have echoed Biden’s outrage, including Japan, China, the United Arab Emirates, and Albania. Ferit Hoxa, Albania’s representative to the UN, called the deportations “an audacious bid to dismantle its future” of Ukraine, adding that Moscow “has failed to convince the world that its re-education camps and forced adoptions are, as portrayed, humanitarian actions” in an August statement. Russia, which does not recognize the court’s authority, called the move meaningless and on Monday opened its own criminal cases against ICC prosecutors and judges, Politico reported. — Saved 72% of original text.
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