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  • China-led cross-border digital currency platform sees surge

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  • . .. had now processed more than 4,000 cross-border transactions.

    What kind of 'surge' is this?

    The mBridge project was initiaaly intended as a system for the 'BRICS currency,' an idea that has now silently been abandoned as it seems. Wonder why China, Russia, Brazil, India, and South Arfica weren't able to find an agreement on that. Maybe a lack of trust?

  • China-led cross-border digital currency platform sees surge

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  • . .. had now processed more than 4,000 cross-border transactions.

    What kind of 'surge' is this?

    The mBridge project was initiaaly intended as a system for the 'BRICS currency,' an idea that has now silently been abandoned as it seems. Wonder why China, Russia, Brazil, India, and South Arfica weren't able to find an agreement on that. Maybe a lack of trust?

  • Want a safe car? Crash tests say you should go electric

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  • What do they understand safe? Is a remote kill switch safe?

  • Australians could soon live and work in EU freely, with the same rules applying for EU citizens in Australia, as part of long-awaited trade deal

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  • New Zealand already has a Free Trade Agreement with the EU, so I personally think it's not too big a step to expand it. Everything that brings us closer together is good.

  • The UK is expected to approve a 'mega' Chinese Embassy in London despite objections

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  • I posted this in another thread, but it also fits here:

    Their intention is to eventually destroy the community by using it as a dumping ground for Chinese (and Russian) propaganda.

    It goes hand in hand with a range of other accounts engaging in second-hand intimidation (and even death threats to some users) against anyone with a different opinion, engage in whataboutism, false equivalence ("Russia's invasion is bad, but the Ukraine war is only a proxy war against the West") and some historical fan fiction ("The Soviet Union was a dream to live in before the CIA destroyed it").

    We have been seeing this also on Reddit. Many subreddits fall to very questionable ideologies that leave no room for discussion, which kills any vivid community (or prevents it from growing). In the tankies' own communities (where everyone gets banned who is only slightly criticizing China or Russia), as you may know, they are not only supporting autocratic genocidal policies, but are literally cheering the violence, as one study says:

    ... The presence of left-wing extremism on the Lemmygrad. ml instance of the decentralized social media platform Lemmy, from its launch in 2019 up to a month after the bans of the subreddits r/GenZedong and r/GenZhou ... reveal a substantial increase in user activity and toxicity levels following the migration of these subreddits to Lemmygrad. ml. ...

    [Users] frequently share posts that support authoritarian regimes, as seen in their support for China, North Korea, and Russia. Moreover, their support can extend beyond backing these authoritarian regimes, even cheering on their violent actions, as evidenced by their posts on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Additionally, we observe anti-Zionist and antisemitic behaviors, which show similarities to right-wing extremism ... Our analysis suggests a concerning endorsement of authoritarian actions and extremist rhetoric on Lemmygrad. ml, further indicating that left-wing extremist communities on decentralized platforms should receive more attention from the academic community.

    What is deeply concerning is that there are also many admins and mods here in the Lemmyverse that support this exremely radicalized community. Such users should get banned imo. This has nothing to do with freedom of opinion.

  • Germany is questioning the future of the European project

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  • Their intention is to eventually destroy the community by using it as a dumping ground for Chinese (and Russian) propaganda.

    It goes hand in hand with a range of other accounts engaging in second-hand intimidation (and even death threats to some users) against anyone with a different opinion, engage in whataboutism, false equivalence ("Russia's invasion is bad, but the Ukraine war is only a proxy war against the West") and some historical fan fiction ("The Soviet Union was a dream to live in before the CIA destroyed it").

    We have been seeing this also on Reddit. Many subreddits fall to very questionable ideologies that leave no room for discussion, which kills any vivid community (or prevents it from growing). In the tankies' own communities (where everyone gets banned who is only slightly criticizing China or Russia), as you may know, they are not only supporting autocratic genocidal policies, but are literally cheering the violence, as one study says:

    ... The presence of left-wing extremism on the Lemmygrad. ml instance of the decentralized social media platform Lemmy, from its launch in 2019 up to a month after the bans of the subreddits r/GenZedong and r/GenZhou ... reveal a substantial increase in user activity and toxicity levels following the migration of these subreddits to Lemmygrad. ml. ...

    [Users] frequently share posts that support authoritarian regimes, as seen in their support for China, North Korea, and Russia. Moreover, their support can extend beyond backing these authoritarian regimes, even cheering on their violent actions, as evidenced by their posts on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Additionally, we observe anti-Zionist and antisemitic behaviors, which show similarities to right-wing extremism ... Our analysis suggests a concerning endorsement of authoritarian actions and extremist rhetoric on Lemmygrad. ml, further indicating that left-wing extremist communities on decentralized platforms should receive more attention from the academic community.

    What is deeply concerning is that there are also many admins and mods here in the Lemmyverse that support this exremely radicalized community. Such users should get banned imo. This has nothing to do with freedom of opinion.

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  • Australians could soon live and work in EU freely, with the same rules applying for EU citizens in Australia, as part of long-awaited trade deal

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  • It's time for Brejoin!

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    Too expensive even for China : the country halts its ambitious race with Europe to build the world’s largest particle accelerator

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  • Disappointed with Hess and MAN: Zurich Transport Services tender for 100 electric buses

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  • They shouldn't buy Chinese buses to avoid running into security risks like Norway, Denmark, UK, Australia, and practically all others that bought from China. The reports on security issues of buses 'made in China' over the last couple of years paint a clear picture.

    Just a few weeks ago, Italy awarded a solar capacity in first 'Not made in China' auction. Europe needs more of this also beyond solar, hopefully soon 'Made only in Europe' auctions.

  • China’s rising industrial strength leaves EU fretting about its manufacturing future

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  • This is based on official numbers. According to these, the Chinese economy is always doing great. There was never a downturn, it's always growing, and always by around 5%. Because this annual rate is needed to achieve Xi Jinping's long-term growth target.

    Don't say something else if and when you are in China, though, or if you would like to do business in China, and Goldman Sachs has a strong presence there, it's one of the few Western banks with a license for fund sales in China, for example.

    In 2024, Zhu Hengpeng, a renowned Chinese economist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, expressed doubt of China's 5% annual growth, claiming the growth to be much lower. He disappeared then for some months. (In the meantime he is back again working for the academy, but he is now convinced that the 5% is the number to be announced, at least that's what he is doing).

    I could tell you a lot more, but I know I can save my breath. You wouldn't believe anyway. Your post history's spin tells clearly that you are not interested in independent information.

  • China’s rising industrial strength leaves EU fretting about its manufacturing future

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  • Just look at @plyth's comment history. There's nothing but these weird and skewed pieces. Save our breath I would say.

  • China’s rising industrial strength leaves EU fretting about its manufacturing future

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  • the Chinese economy has grown by about 30 per cent over the past five years

    Not even Chinese economists believe China's official GDP growth rates of 5% annually. This is rubbish.

    the EU had to roll over when Trump threatened tariffs, China refused to bend, and its tough strategy has so far been successful.

    There are several economic reports that say the exact opposite. One analysis from April 2025 says that US tariffs with retaliation by other countries will shrink the EU's GDP by -0.05 percent and China's GDP by -0.27 percent.

    The EU-US agreement that has been reported as unfavorable for Europe was, indeed, a joke. This was not a deal at all as it was not even legally binding. For example, we see now that the EU is not even remotely buying US energy for the 'agreed' 250 billion dollars but just a small fraction of it (a fact that all analysts have always been predicting). The only thing where the EU gave in was when it ditched the import tariffs for agricultural products from the US. Sounds impressive and weak - until you hear that these agri tariffs were in the range of 1-2 % on average. That's next to nothing.

    These are just two points out of this very weak article. Not that I contradict everything, but what the author here does is simply conveying Chinese narratives (and he does only that). It would be good if he read other stats and reports rather than just the Chinese ones.

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  • Peace be the promise

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  • Why is this in Europe?

  • Fossil Fuel Subsidies Are Leading the US and EU Into Industrial Decline

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  • The least thing the Chinese party-state has in mind is democracy.

    The article falls short of a lot of explanations, the most important likely being democracy. It doesn't even touch the issue even though China is a serial human rights abuser. It's almost hilarious to interpret this as China 'saving the soul of democracy.' This, of course, doesn't make any sense.

    It also says that CO2 emissions in China have been stagnating for over a year and a half. Although this is true, it is very likely because of a downturn in Chinese production. We will see what happens if and when the economic environment improves and output increases. Most economists are very sceptical and think China's stagnating CO2 emissions is temporal rather than structural. China is -as the article also admits- the world's largest polluter. No country is on track to meet the Paris goals, but the EU and its members states are better than China. And during the COP30 last year, just 83 countries joined a global movement committing themselves to phase out fossil fuels. Among these are European countries, many from South America, the Caribbean. China is not among them, the globe's biggest polluter openly refuses to phase out fossil fuels.

    The authoritarian state is the worst thing for the future of the world and the humanity. This is blatant propaganda.

  • Carney heads to Beijing as Trump’s America First agenda forces Canada into trade rethink

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  • Yeah, I get your point, but I think in this case Mr. Carney won't find a friend in Beijing.

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  • This was originally reported by Reuters as someone already said. We should add that The South China Morning Post is a Chinese state-controlled propaganda medium owned by Alibaba Group and based in Hong Kong.

  • Are You Dead?: The viral Chinese app for young people living alone

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  • UK: Politicians warn of ‘total warfare’ as election intimidation intensifies - hostile states and extremists exploit democracy, more parliamentarians need police protection

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  • The issue here is that malign foreign state actors are threatening European and politicians of other democracies to influence decision making, with China and Russia have been singled out here.

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    Whenever Trump say US is going to do something to a country, replace "country" with "young girl"

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  • Why is this in Europe?