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5·2 months agoI weirdly managed to make a typo in both the original and archived link … But now it’s corrected. Sorry.
It’s another reason not to read ‘Politico’ (and OP’s posts, who frequently cross-posts Chinese and Russian propaganda narratives).
The title of strongly misleading as there is just a single reference to Ukraine’s accession bid at the end of article, and all it says that it will be a longer process. This might be true, but the EU’s enlargement process is historically slow, with past candidates often requiring several years of negotiations. However, the EU has made it clear it’s ready to speed the process up. Kos and Kallas (the EU’s commissioners for enlargement and foreign policy, respectively) announced just this week to open all clusters for Ukraine’s and Moldova’s accesssion talks before this summer.
This is a clickbaity headline.
31·3 months agoThat’s part of so-called “Chinamaxxing” that started on Tiktok some time ago and has now arrived to other social media platforms, spread by influencers and other propagandists like OP.
As one article by the BBC says,
One of the most influential figures behind the Chinamaxxing meme is Sherry Zhu, a Chinese-American TikTok content creator who regularly shares traditional wellness tips with her “Chinese baddies”.
“Tomorrow you’re turning Chinese,” she tells her 740,000 TikTok followers. “And I know that sounds intimidating, but there is no point in fighting it now.”
The group of 60 states that discuss the fossil fuel phase out as described in the linked article formed during the latest COP last year in Brazil as the majority of governments refused to commit to an end of fossil fuels. China and the US were among these countries.
US, oil producing countries, Europe are generally a lot worse than China on a per capita consumption basis.
If we look at the CO₂ emissions per capita of the world’s top 30 economies by GDP, China sits at number 9 with 8.7 tons per year and person (in 2024). This is more than double the global average and more than any European country except Russia.
China’s climate action’s are also highly insufficient, including against the country’s fair share regarding its National Determined Contributions (NDCs). It’s not that Europe is on track to achieve the Paris goals, but it’s much better than China.
Despite a rise in renewable energy investments, coal has re-emerged as an ongoing force in China’s power system in recent years for a variety of reasons, and this is also clearly embedded in Beijing’s recently released new 15th Five-Year Plan.
It’s time that Europe revives its own renewable energy industry. Environmental laws regarding production and consumption are much stronger in Europe than in China, and so it is better for Europe from a security point of view.
China, the world’s biggest polluter, is among the countries that refused to join the group aiming to phase out fossil fuels.
The title is a bit misleading as there are only around 60 democratic states that meet to discuss fossil fuel exit. The majority of governments, including the the world’s biggest polluters, are missing, particularly China and the US.
Trump’s signature on US dollars, now his picture in passports, and all other things Trump has put his name and face on as president … is this some personality cult that we know from other ‘leaders’ like Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Mussolini, …
Done, although I think this is not an opinion here as the researchers provide strong evidence for this. It’s a good example how the Chinese government is using a blend of false and biased news to fabricate fiction presented as ‘news’ …
2·3 months agoChina praises countries that blocked Taiwan overflight to Africa
At a regular news conference in Beijing, a spokesperson for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office expressed appreciation for the position [of some countries to revoke flight permits]. Taiwan … accused China of pressing the Seychelles, Mauritius, and Madagascar to revoke permission for his aircraft to fly over their territories.
53·3 months agoTo make things worse: according to a freedom of information request filed in 2020 with all 32 councils in London, as well as 20 other major UK cities, about two-thirds of public cameras are made by two Chinese companies (Hikvision and Dahua) that are both accused of links to the repression minority groups in China, including allegations of forced sterilisation, slave labour and mass internment.
This will expose ordinary citizens to a foreign dictatorial regime, including those who fled from China and other countries to the UK to escape repression.
It’s not enough imho. Europe should do more.
The KMT is not a ‘status-quo party’ but a branch of the Chinese Communist Party parroting CCP propaganda as so many so-called ‘tankies’ here do, too.
This isn’t limited to Google’s AI but true for all of LLMs. But as we all know, they are not ‘lying’ but rather just repeating the ‘lies’ they have learned.
Most analysts predicted this as a realistic scenario weeks ago due to Beijing’s stock pile, but they also said that China will be in trouble soon if and when the war persists as most of the country’s energy comes from Venezuela and the Middle East.
Most analysts predicted this as a realistic scenario weeks ago due to Beijing’s stock pile, but they also said that China will be in trouble soon if and when the war persists as most of the country’s energy comes from Venezuela and the Middle East.
86·4 months agoWhat an absurdly weird comment. You want oil? You get oil.
China is not only a decisive supporter of Russia in its war against Ukraine, it’s been bullying practically all its neighbours in Asia. Beijing’s envoys have openly threatened foreign government officials (as Japan’s PM) and other countries’ populations (Japan, Australia), and threatening Taiwan. A Chinese envoy in Europe claimed that former Soviet-states (like Ukraine, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, and all others) have ‘no effective status’ in international law. And this is just a TINY sample of what China stands for.
Saying it’s not a ‘conflict type’ is absurd. China isn’t a reliable partner, and it doesn’t get better because the U.S. gets worse.
I hope you understand the message.
What an absurdly weird comment. Chinese brands are among the least trusted, and there are a lot of brands people trust, but they apparently don’t trust brands from China.