Investigating China's illegal operations on foreign soil | Four Corners
For the first time ever, a former spy for China’s notorious secret police – one of the most powerful arms of the country’s intelligence apparatus – goes public, exposing the covert and illegal operations he was ordered to carry out on foreign soil and the dissidents he was tasked with tracking, including in Australia, Canada, India, Cambodia and Thailand
#China#BYD#EVs#USA: "“The Western markets did not democratize EVs. They gentrified EVs,” said Bill Russo, the founder of the Automobility Ltd. consultancy in Shanghai. “And when you gentrify, you limit the size of the market. China is all about democratizing EVs, and that’s what will ultimately lead Chinese companies to be successful as they go global.”
Inside a huge garage in an industrial area west of Detroit, a company called Caresoft Global tore apart a Seagull that its China office purchased and shipped to the U.S.
Company President Terry Woychowski, a former chief engineer on General Motors’ big pickup trucks, said the car is a “clarion call” for the U.S. auto industry, which is years behind China in designing low-cost EVs.
After the teardown, Woychowski, who has been in the auto business for 45 years, said he was left wondering if U.S. automakers can adjust. “Things will have to change in some radical ways in order to be able to compete,” he said."
China, still bitter over 百年国耻, its century of humiliation, has not forgotten that the imperialist #colonial power that took the most land from it was Russia
And now, with a few desperate, obsequious hugs from the downtrodden mafia ghoul Putin, #Xi takes it all back, and heck of a lot more
Chinese President Xi Jinping has reiterated that the fundamental solution to the Ukraine crisis lies in promoting a new type of balanced, effective and sustainable security architecture, highlighting China's readiness to play a positive role in advancing a political settlement of the protracted Russia-Ukraine conflict. #AureFreePress#News#press#headline#Ukraine#Russia#China
Russia's sovereign wealth fund has struck an agreement with Chinese petrochemical company Haiwei to invest about 7 billion rubles ($76.5 million) in a marine terminal project in Russia's Far East for the shipment of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), Russian news agency Sputnik reported. #AureFreePress#News#press#headline#Russia#China
China has refused for the third time Putin's request for the Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline project.
The construction of the Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline is postponed. Russia and China have yet to agree on key details of the project.
A new contract with Beijing is desperately needed by Gazprom, which lost its European market and lost more than half of its exports after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. #AureFreePress#News#press#headline#Ukraine#Russia#China
This is an interesting chart and show how abysmally low the healthcare spending in #India is. Compare it with an equally populous state like #China and one can clearly see how the political systems and ideology impacts the #healthcare spending.
From an article in #TheHindu
@BlackAzizAnansi I am a little dubious about the #US narrative of #China “treating Uyghers badly”. I have read fairly widely on th subject, and believe that claim to be fabricated. This is one such article (link at end) that offers a coherent account of what has occurred in Xinjiang. I must add a few more points:
I have recently watched half a dozen videos on YouTube of young Westen travellers in Xinjiang showing a harmonious, peaceful and happy people (eg https://youtu.be/V976H5Gz3aw?si=BPPwAubibHD0_iM3). These are readily available. 2. You (or anyone else) is free to go to Xinjiang and see for yourself. You don’t need a guide, but are only restricted from going to military bases or to the border where there are not offical crossings. 3. Being an Autonomous Zone, the Provincial Adminstration of Xinjiang is comprised of nearly all Uyghers. https://www.unz.com/article/uyghurs-political-islam-the-bri/
"At least seven Chinese crew members of a foreign aggregate carrier were detained by the #Philippines Coast Guard in San Felipe town in this province on Thursday for illegal entry after they failed to present proper documents during an inspection.... Commander Euphraim Jayson Diciano, head of the PCG station in #Zambales, said the Hyperline 988, a vessel registered in #SierraLeone..was being held in the vicinity waters off Barangay Sindol