A parliamentary report on foreign interference in France, prepared upon demand of Marine Le Pen's far-right party and published on Thursday (June 8), highlighted China's growing interference, pointing to its methods that are becoming increasingly aggressive.
Russia and China have begun joint air patrols over the East China Sea as well as the Sea of Japan. Increased cooperation are meant to display their "no-limits" partnership to the US and other adversaries....
Holy fuck. Minister Yeşilgöz wil verplicht #spyware op iedereen zijn telefoon & computer installeren.
Het gaat om 'client side scanning' (Css) die alles wat je doet zal scannen, en automatisch de autoriteiten waarschuwt als een tekst, plaatje of bestand volgens de software illegaal zou zijn.
Css zou om te beginnen kinderporno tegen moeten gaan.
Immer wieder lesen wir in den Social-Media-Kommentaren, dass Deutschland kaum Einfluss auf die Erderwärmung habe. Das ist falsch. Weitere Fakten, mit denen Sie Mythen zum #Klimawandel entgegentreten können: http://bpaq.de/faktencheck_klimawandel
#Deutschland bleibt nach den #USA und weit vor #China 👉der der größte #Treibhaus-Staat der Welt👈 (pro Einwohner) bis 2050, wird die Volkswirtschaft nicht komplett umgestellt.
In a move underscoring its geopolitical ambitions in the Western Hemisphere, China is reportedly going to establish an espionage base in Cuba just 90 miles from Florida, for which the Chinese government would pay billions of dollars to the cash-strapped Caribbean nation.
We did it to ourselves. Obama started to lift sanctions with Cuba & Trump shot it down. The sanctions have crippled Cuba & for what purpose? #Cuba #China
Interesting moves in the #ElectricVehicle changing space lately (in the US and in Canada).
It sure would have been nice for the US to mandate some open #EV charging standard years ago, but it seems that everyone is coalescing around #Tesla's so-called NCAS "standard".
Right now, it seems to me that NCAS is not actually a standard, but rather, an open specification.
Hopefully, this gets on an independent standards track.
#China: Human rights lawyer #DingJiaxi has appealed against his conviction. RT #LuoShenchun: “#丁家喜上诉状#我无罪 Thank you very much to my old friend. Ms. Xu Meiling, the former editor-in-chief of "Human Rights in China", who just retired not long ago, translated Jiaxi's appeal petition into English. Thank you for sharing and circulating!” See the appeal at https://nitter.net/luoshch/status/1666957436597465089?s=12 h/t @ppoon
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“The pain doesn’t make you want to live. How many lives I have? Nine!”
Wang Bing's "Til madness do us part" (2013) is an exceptional document on China's mental asylums, and the sometimes arbitrary reasons for people's detention. It's not an easy watch but essential.
China is going all in on coal, the dirtiest and most polluting of fossil fuels...
Coal power plant construction and additional project announcements accelerated rapidly in China in 2022, with new permits reaching the highest level since 2015. The coal power capacity construction in China was six times as large as that in all of the rest of the world combined.
But, hey, it's just fine, because China has also recently announced the installation of two amazingly futuristic "carbon capture and storage" facilities!
Except, oh, wait...
Before you get all giddy about this new push by China to capture carbon dioxide, here are a few things you might want to keep in mind.
Whatever carbon dioxide is captured or stored by these two new projects, it won’t amount to a piss hole in the snow when compared to the massive amounts of new carbon dioxide — billions and billions of tons — those new coal-fired generating stations will add to the atmosphere each and every year for the next 50 years or so, which is the normal useful life of a coal-powered facility.
Dang. There's always a catch.
But the capitalist financiers on Wall Street who are funding China's rapid expansion really hope you won't notice that. If they can just keep the gravy train rolling a little longer, carry on with Business As Usual for a few more years until their billions 💵 in offshore accounts turn into trillions 💵 then maybe they'll think about gradually slowing down all this growth and cutting back on emissions. Maybe, but probably not.
> This was Russia's doing because only they have demonstrated zero regard for environmental damage from their actions.
LOL! There's not even a connection between the two. That's like blaming #China for wildfires in #Canada because they've demonstrated that they don't care about pollution.
Is there any actual evidence linking #Russia to destroying what is, may I remind you, their own oil pipeline?
"How can SA possibly snub its most critical trading partners [...]? [...] for the #ANC, there is something far more important than trade and economic #growth – and that is survival.
[...] #SouthAfrica’s economic #collapse will force it into the clutches of some or other lender of last resort.
For those that value [...] #democracy, #freespeech and the rule of law, being an indentured debtor to the likes of #China will be a nightmare.
Whenever news breaks of another Chinese covert police operation in another country (USA, Canada, now the UK), I always wonder why the host government doesn't arrest the covert police officers instead of just asking China politely to not do it again. Like guys, China has showed they don't play by the rules time and time again. Assert your own damn laws. Or is it not a crime to run a police agency for a foreign country in the US, CA, and UK?
China’s interference is ‘increasingly aggressive’, French parliamentary report finds (www.euractiv.com)
A parliamentary report on foreign interference in France, prepared upon demand of Marine Le Pen's far-right party and published on Thursday (June 8), highlighted China's growing interference, pointing to its methods that are becoming increasingly aggressive.
China, Russia launch joint air patrol, alarms South Korea
Russia and China have begun joint air patrols over the East China Sea as well as the Sea of Japan. Increased cooperation are meant to display their "no-limits" partnership to the US and other adversaries....
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