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0x815 OP , 2 days ago to technology in China's state subsidies in green technologies significantly higher than those in EU and OECD countries, distorting competition, researchers say

Yeah, sure clean all yards but start with your own.

Do you say that to Europe, to China, or both?

It’s obvious you’re addressing only Europe. Why?

This is what I meant with ‘The West bad, China bad okay’. It’s hypocritical. It’s double-standards. It’s ignorant and disgusting.

0x815 OP , 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to technology in China's state subsidies in green technologies significantly higher than those in EU and OECD countries, distorting competition, researchers say

What about cleaning all yards? This ‘the West bad, China bad okay’ stance is dehumanising and ignorant. [Edit typo.]

0x815 OP , 3 days ago to technology in China's state subsidies in green technologies significantly higher than those in EU and OECD countries, distorting competition, researchers say

I posted this elsewhere already, but it also fits here goven many of the posts in this thread: It is not just about data/privacy concerns (which are underestimated imo, as China pursues an own agenda with collecting your data through Chinese tech) and ‘unfair’ subsidies, but about gross human rights violations.

In short, some parts of the cheap Chinese cars are made in concentration camps where people are forced to work under catastrophic conditions.

0x815 OP , 3 days ago to technology in China's state subsidies in green technologies significantly higher than those in EU and OECD countries, distorting competition, researchers say

I posted this elsewhere already, but it also fits here goven many of the posts in this thread: It is not just about data/privacy concerns (which are underestimated imo, as China pursues an own agenda with collecting your data through Chinese tech) and ‘unfair’ subsidies, but about gross human rights violations.

In short, some parts of the cheap Chinese cars are made in concentration camps where people are forced to work under catastrophic conditions.

0x815 OP , 3 days ago to news in Autocracy is ‘evil,’ Taiwan president says after China threatens death for separatism

Done.

0x815 OP , 10 days ago to technology in Chinese firm sought to use UK university links to access AI for possible military use

Chinese orgs love signing MOUs

The CCP - or, better, the China Scholarship Council (CSC) under the rule of the CCP - forces Chinese students and researchers to sign ‘loyalty pleadges’ before giong abroad saying they “shall consciously safeguard the honor of the motherland, (and) obey the guidance and management of embassies (consulates) abroad.” The restrictive scholarship contract requires them to report back to the Chinese embassy on a regular basis, and anyone who violates these conditions is subject to disciplinary action.

In one investigation,

Mareike Ohlberg, a senior fellow working on China at the German Marshall Fund, sees the CSC contract as a demonstration of the Chinese Communist Party’s “mania for control.”

“People are actively encouraged to intervene if anything happens that might not be in the country’s interest,” Ohlberg said.

Harming China’s interests is in fact considered the worst possible breach of the contract.

“It’s even listed ahead of possible involvement in crimes, so effectively even ahead of murder,” she noted. “China is making its priorities very clear here.”

[…] Kai Gehring, the chair of German parliament’s Committee for Education and Research, says the CSC contracts are “not compatible” with Germany’s Basic Law, which guarantees academic freedom.

In Sweden, for example, universities have already cancelled the collaboration with the CSC over this practice.

There is ample evidence that China uses scientific collaboration with private companies as well as universities and research organizations for spying. You’ll find many independent reports on that as well as of the CCP’s intimidation practices of Chinese students who don’t comply with the party line, e.g., in Australia and elsewhere. It’s easy to find reliable sources on the (Western) web.

0x815 OP , 11 days ago to news in Romania denies visas for entire Russian delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Bucharest over "aggression against Ukraine"

That’s right. Just pasted the original content without recognizing it, my fault. Just added it now in the body.

0x815 OP , 12 days ago to news in "Training future authoritarians": How China promotes its authoritarian capitalism model by teaching government officials in the Global South on how to infringe people's freedom and undermine democracy

What is a good source for information on China?

0x815 OP , 13 days ago to news in "Training future authoritarians": How China promotes its authoritarian capitalism model by teaching government officials in the Global South on how to infringe people's freedom and undermine democracy

These are not marketing but training materials offering authoritarian principles in areas such as law enforcement, journalism, legal issues, space technologies, and many other topics, to build and maintain a totalitarian regime as China’s authoritarian capitalism model. It’s for the benefit of a few, while the people’s freedoms are suppressed.

Read the whole report.

0x815 OP , 13 days ago to news in China's government launched additional "local communication centers" to increase propaganda efforts worldwide

Corrected, thanks. It’s no bear initiative :-) 🐼

0x815 OP , 13 days ago to news in China's government launched additional "local communication centers" to increase propaganda efforts worldwide

Yeah, and sometimes the ‘Western’ media is, in fact, Chinese:

NewsBreak: Most downloaded US news app has Chinese roots and ‘writes fiction’ using AI

0x815 OP , 14 days ago to news in South Australia to legislate 'world leading' electoral donation ban prohibiting donations and gifts to political parties, backed by tough penalties for those who seek to circumvent the law

It says a fine or ‘up to 10 years in prison’.

0x815 OP , 18 days ago to news in Russia Spreads Disinformation to Cover Up Its Use of Chemical Weapons in Ukraine, the US Government Says

@trevron, It’s good practice to name source. Read my other post in this thread on the same topic citing another source, and feel free to post sources you deem more reliable.

[Edit typo.]

0x815 OP , 18 days ago to news in Russia Spreads Disinformation to Cover Up Its Use of Chemical Weapons in Ukraine, the US Government Says

Ukraine accuses Russia of intensifying chemical attacks on the battlefield (February 2024)

Ukraine accused Russia […] of using toxic chemicals in more than 200 attacks on the battlefield in January alone, a sharp increase in what it said were recorded instances of their use by Russian forces since they invaded two years ago.

CS gas […] is banned on the battlefield by the international Chemical Weapons Convention which states in Article 1: “Each State Party undertakes not to use riot control agents as a method of warfare.”

[…] The Ukrainian general staff said: “815 cases of the use of ammunition loaded with toxic chemicals by the Russian Federation were recorded. Of these, only in January 2024 – 229 cases.”

0x815 OP , 19 days ago to news in In the New Cold War, Europe’s Approach to China Is Already Outdated, Researchers Say

The Nato expansion issue is far to simplistic. Nato doesn’t expand itself. All Nato members join this alliance voluntarily. Finland, for example, has been committed to neutrality for 80 or so years and joined Nato only after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Neutrality is fine in a world where everyone -especially your neighbours- respect democratic values and human rights. If this isn’t the case, countries seek alliances. (We have a similar situation in the Asia-Pacific region, where countries seek to establish alliances following China’s increasingly aggressive behaviour.)

The ‘problem’ isn’t Nato -that’s indeed Russian propaganda- but the fact that Russia failed so far to develop democratic structures. The aggressor here is Putin’s dictatorship.