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  • China's state subsidies in green technologies significantly higher than those in EU and OECD countries, distorting competition, researchers say

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

  • China's state subsidies in green technologies significantly higher than those in EU and OECD countries, distorting competition, researchers say

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  • 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.

  • China's state subsidies in green technologies significantly higher than those in EU and OECD countries, distorting competition, researchers say

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  • 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.

  • Cyber-attacks: six persons added to EU sanctions list for malicious cyber activities against EU member states and Ukraine

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    Cyber-attacks: six persons added to EU sanctions list for malicious cyber activities against EU member states and Ukraine

    www.consilium.europa.eu /en/press/press-releases/2024/06/24/cyber-attacks-six-persons-added-to-eu-sanctions-list-for-malicious-cyber-activitiescyberattacks-against-eu-member-states-and-ukraine
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    Russian government accused of leaving citizens vulnerable to attacks like Sunday's gun rampages by turning the state's security apparatus on Kremlin critics instead of terrorist threats

    www.reuters.com /world/europe/exiled-chief-rabbi-says-russia-neglects-terror-threat-by-focusing-repression-2024-06-24
  • World News @beehaw.org
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    Russian government accused of leaving citizens vulnerable to attacks like Sunday's gun rampages by turning the state's security apparatus on Kremlin critics instead of terrorist threats

    www.reuters.com /world/europe/exiled-chief-rabbi-says-russia-neglects-terror-threat-by-focusing-repression-2024-06-24
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Russian government accused of leaving citizens vulnerable to attacks like Sunday's gun rampages by turning the state's security apparatus on Kremlin critics instead of terrorist threats

    www.reuters.com /world/europe/exiled-chief-rabbi-says-russia-neglects-terror-threat-by-focusing-repression-2024-06-24
  • World News @beehaw.org
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    Bank of China halts payments with sanctioned Russian lenders, Russian media reports

    www.themoscowtimes.com /2024/06/24/bank-of-china-halts-payments-with-sanctioned-russian-lenders-kommersant-a85503
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    Bank of China halts payments with sanctioned Russian lenders, Russian media reports

    www.themoscowtimes.com /2024/06/24/bank-of-china-halts-payments-with-sanctioned-russian-lenders-kommersant-a85503

  • Autocracy is ‘evil,’ Taiwan president says after China threatens death for separatism

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  • Done.

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    Autocracy is ‘evil,’ Taiwan president says after China threatens death for separatism

    www.nbcnews.com /news/world/autocracy-evil-taiwan-president-says-china-threatens-death-separatism-rcna158529
  • World News @beehaw.org
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    Autocracy is ‘evil,’ Taiwan president says after China threatens death for separatism

    www.nbcnews.com /news/world/autocracy-evil-taiwan-president-says-china-threatens-death-separatism-rcna158529
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    Autocracy is ‘evil,’ Taiwan president says after China threatens death for separatism

    www.nbcnews.com /news/world/autocracy-evil-taiwan-president-says-china-threatens-death-separatism-rcna158529
  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    China's state subsidies in green technologies significantly higher than those in EU and OECD countries, distorting competition, researchers say

    www.intereconomics.eu /contents/year/2024/number/4/article/eu-concerns-about-chinese-subsidies-what-the-evidence-suggests.html
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    China's state subsidies in green technologies significantly higher than those in EU and OECD countries, distorting competition, researchers say

    www.intereconomics.eu /contents/year/2024/number/4/article/eu-concerns-about-chinese-subsidies-what-the-evidence-suggests.html
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    China's state subsidies in green technologies significantly higher than those in EU and OECD countries, distorting competition, researchers say

    www.intereconomics.eu /contents/year/2024/number/4/article/eu-concerns-about-chinese-subsidies-what-the-evidence-suggests.html
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    China-backed hackers stepping up attacks on Taiwan, cybersecurity firm says

    www.aljazeera.com /economy/2024/6/24/china-backed-hackers-stepping-up-attacks-on-taiwan-cybersecurity-firm-says

  • Italian carmaker fined for selling China-made cars as Italian

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  • This isn't an Italian problem, there are bad people everywhere. In Italy it's not better nor worse, so there's no reason to pidgeonhole a nation.

  • Italian carmaker fined for selling China-made cars as Italian

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  • It's a bot with a funny human touch 😅

  • Leak: EU interior ministers want to exempt themselves from chat control bulk scanning of private messages - EU Reporter

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  • And one detail here is that mainstream media don't report on this. They do as if it didn't happen.

  • 'We have no choice now’: Desperate to circumvent sanctions and do business with China, Russian companies resort to bartering and cryptocurrency pegged to the U.S. dollar

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  • @tal

    This is true. A couple of years ago Tether (along with its sister company Bitfinex, a crypto currency exchange) settled allegations by the New York state in the U.S. by paying a fine (in the double-digit millions), admitting that claims that Tether was backed by fiat at all times was "a lie".

    A major issue with this coin is that it is not subject to regulation by any authority (it's owned by iFinex based in the British Virgin Islands), so they may claim whatever they want.

    I don't know what exactly made them choose Tether, but one reason might indeed be that they don't have much choice (alternative crypto coins are arguably far too volatile to serve as a means of payment for companies with higher bills). Maybe because the company has an office in Hong Kong as far ad I know (at least they had one not long ago). Maybe also because there is a higher volume, maybe because there is also a Tether variant pegged to the Chinese yuan (it hss the same shortcomings as the USDT, but a much lower volume). I don't know.

    But let's not forget that it can be tracked as it's on a blockchain. If they seek to circumvent sanctions and hide their money trail, that's not a good idea.

    In a nutshell: anyone who says that the sanctions don't work should read stories like that and they might change their mind.

  • Client-Side-Scanning: 'Chat Control is Pure Surveillance State'

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  • @zecg

    What a garbage! This comment doesn't make sense for a lot of reasons, but the most obvious one at first sight is the 'useful idiots' argument. These 'useful idiots' are exactly the far right-wing officials who get repoortedly bribed by China and Russia, and are criticized by their own party members for their incompetence.

  • Council to greenlight Chat Contol on June 19th - Patrick Breyer (MEP Pirate Party)

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  • Criminals have already been using alternative ways to exchange data for a lo.g time, especially those who are exchanging images and videos (such as CSAM) as everyday messengers are completely inapt for transmitting such large volumes of data. And these algorithms will yield a lot of false positives too.

    And it is the wrong signal to authoritarian countries as it makes people and companies extremely vulnerable. As Markus Hartmann, Chief Public Prosecutor in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, said not long ago on chat control:

    "From the point of view of information security there is to assume an increased risk [of hacking]. There is no special expertise [demonstrated by politicians] in this area with regard to the signal effect for authoritarian states."

    [Original link in German, translation my own.]

  • Chinese firm sought to use UK university links to access AI for possible military use

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  • 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.

  • Romania denies visas for entire Russian delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Bucharest over "aggression against Ukraine"

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

  • Romania denies visas for entire Russian delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Bucharest over "aggression against Ukraine"

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  • Done, thanks.

  • "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

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  • What is a good source for information on China?

  • 'We have no choice now’: Desperate to circumvent sanctions and do business with China, Russian companies resort to bartering and cryptocurrency pegged to the U.S. dollar

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  • If you don't want your payments to be tracked, then it really is.

  • "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

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  • 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.

  • China's government launched additional "local communication centers" to increase propaganda efforts worldwide

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

  • China's government launched additional "local communication centers" to increase propaganda efforts worldwide

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