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  • EU to put tariffs of up to 38% on Chinese electric vehicles as trade war looms

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  • This is not about EV cars, but it is a perfect real-life example what happens if and when you pursue an economic policy like China's:

    China solar panel manufacturers seek government action to halt freefall in prices

    Chinese solar panel manufacturers said they are seeking immediate government intervention to curb investment and industry collaboration to arrest a plunge in prices of solar cells and modules, as the industry faces overcapacity.

    Financial incentives and a government push have helped China become the solar panel factory of the world, accounting for about 80% of global module capacity. Analysts expect Chinese manufacturers to add up to 600 gigawatts (GW) this year, enough to meet global demand through 2032.

    However, with no end in sight for the plunge in prices, industry officials and analysts said intense competition was threatening to drive smaller producers into bankruptcy. Rapid capacity additions drove down prices of China's finished solar panels by 42% last year.

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  • EU to put tariffs of up to 38% on Chinese electric vehicles as trade war looms

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  • Shenzhen and Hong Kong and many other Chinese cities are really great, I have been there too. The point is that what we see and what you describe is the surface. China is a deeply autocratic regime. It's a shame what the CCP is doing to the Chinese people and their culture.

  • Volvo is moving EV production from China to Belgium as the EU eyes tariffs on Beijing

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  • @makeasnek, it's not only that you are using a lot of words to say nothing, it doesn't address the issue either (because China, among other things, close its own markets, they don't play by the rules they want others to follow, see my other post in this thread).

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  • Volvo is moving EV production from China to Belgium as the EU eyes tariffs on Beijing

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  • @makeasnek, this may be fine if and when all countries apply to the same rules, but this is not the case. China is heavily protecting its market, and they do so much more than the EU or the US. In China, foreign companies can't even run a subsidiary in the country, they need a Chinese parther firm to create a joint venture. Recent Chinese 'security laws' even make simple market research almost impossible as it may be seen as 'espionage' by China, which made many consulting firms close their Chinese offices. And these are just two examples.

  • Volvo is moving EV production from China to Belgium as the EU eyes tariffs on Beijing

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  • Tariffs make us all poorer in the long run. Did we learn nothing in the 20th century?

    A bold statement without any economic or political context. It is Tthngs like that which make the foundation of misinformation and disinformation imo, and, in that case, play into the hands of Chinese disinformation campaigns.

  • Party summaries

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  • Volvo is moving EV production from China to Belgium as the EU eyes tariffs on Beijing

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  • Good. But European firms must also stop putting European intellectual property and national security at risk by outsourcing the making of sensitive technology to China or other countries, and Chinese and other foreign companies shouldn't be allowed to take over European companies (the latter being a corresponding rule in China for foreign companies btw).

  • Russia Spreads Disinformation to Cover Up Its Use of Chemical Weapons in Ukraine, the US Government Says

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  • @trevron, It's good practice to name source. Read my other post in this thread on the same topic citing another source, and feel free to post sources you deem more reliable.

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  • Russia Spreads Disinformation to Cover Up Its Use of Chemical Weapons in Ukraine, the US Government Says

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  • Ukraine accuses Russia of intensifying chemical attacks on the battlefield (February 2024)

    Ukraine accused Russia [...] of using toxic chemicals in more than 200 attacks on the battlefield in January alone, a sharp increase in what it said were recorded instances of their use by Russian forces since they invaded two years ago.

    CS gas [...] is banned on the battlefield by the international Chemical Weapons Convention which states in Article 1: "Each State Party undertakes not to use riot control agents as a method of warfare."

    [...] The Ukrainian general staff said: "815 cases of the use of ammunition loaded with toxic chemicals by the Russian Federation were recorded. Of these, only in January 2024 – 229 cases."

  • In the New Cold War, Europe’s Approach to China Is Already Outdated, Researchers Say

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  • The Nato expansion issue is far to simplistic. Nato doesn't expand itself. All Nato members join this alliance voluntarily. Finland, for example, has been committed to neutrality for 80 or so years and joined Nato only after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

    Neutrality is fine in a world where everyone -especially your neighbours- respect democratic values and human rights. If this isn't the case, countries seek alliances. (We have a similar situation in the Asia-Pacific region, where countries seek to establish alliances following China's increasingly aggressive behaviour.)

    The 'problem' isn't Nato -that's indeed Russian propaganda- but the fact that Russia failed so far to develop democratic structures. The aggressor here is Putin's dictatorship.

  • In the New Cold War, Europe’s Approach to China Is Already Outdated, Researchers Say

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  • German Chancellor Scholz Warns European Commission President Von der Leyen Against Coalition With Populists

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  • This somehow on topic as someone mentioned 'lobbying':

    Pfizergate: Belgian court postpones case to December taking pressure off von der Leyen --- (Archived version)

    The latest hearing in the Pfizergate scandal has been postponed until 6 December by a Belgian court to give parties additional time to examine certain aspects of the case, a decision likely to be a relief for European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who is currently busy on the campaign trail ahead of the June EU elections.

    In April 2021, the New York Times broke the ‘Pfizergate’ story, revealing that von der Leyen had negotiated a contract for 1.8 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses during the pandemic with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla through mobile phone texts that remain undisclosed to this day.

    In June 2022, the European Ombudsman concluded that the contract negotiation was a case of ‘maladministration’.

  • Contrary to their politicians, EU citizens support migration including asylum seekers' right to work, study finds

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  • Doesn't it make more sense for people to have the option to move ....

    Certainly. The most important outcome of this study imho is that there is a significant gap between the public/political debate and the peoples' sentiment.

  • OpenAI Insider Estimates 70 Percent Chance That AI Will Destroy or Catastrophically Harm Humanity

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  • Yes. We need human responsibility for everything what AI does. It's not the technology that harms but human beings and those who profit from it.

  • France, Germany, Poland facing ‘permanent’ Russian disinformation attacks, EU warns

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  • German Eurofighters intercept Russian spy jet

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  • US B-52 Bombers fly close to Russia’s borders escorted by German, Spanish, and Polish fighter jets --- (Archived link)

    [...] This deployment is a routine yet significant demonstration of NATO’s capability to operate seamlessly and maintain stability in the Baltic Sea region.

    During the mission, the bombers flew close to Russian territory in Kaliningrad, circling over Lithuania and traversing Dutch, German, and Polish airspace. [...] These sorties serve as a reminder of NATO’s resolve and readiness to respond to potential threats in the region.

  • German carmaker Volkswagen says forced labour in one of its sub-supplier's plants in China was not identified as 'no full supply chain transparency exists'

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  • You wouldn't trust the Chinese supplier (or any supplier). You'd go to the bauxite shipment company and let them register with the network, you'd send independent auditors to their premises, very much as we do it with ibdependent audits nowadays.

    We do need to physically access the premises across the supply chain to verify that 'on-chain personas' reflect their 'real' identities. But no single authority can control the data, we can be quite sure that all transfers of ownership across the supply chain have been authorized by their controllers. Compared to centralized systems, the blockchain provides us a much higher level of transparency and certainty over the fidelity of the information.

  • Funding of political parties in the EU: Populist, far-right and far-left political parties receive a quarter of all the private money, while the donors remain widely unknown

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  • The report has two parts:

    You need to register for reading the articles (but don't need to pay). If you don't want to register, you can use 12ft.io (the archive doesn't appear to eliminate the registration).

    In addition, you see a list of reports by media outlets from across Europe in multiple languages.

  • German carmaker Volkswagen says forced labour in one of its sub-supplier's plants in China was not identified as 'no full supply chain transparency exists'

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  • there's no way tovtrack where resources, material, items come from, who made them

    Independent audits are done -they are very common in many industry for a variety of reasons- and they work if done properly.

    We could even track the provenance of each material through a trustless system like a blockchain to guarantuee a high level of credibility and transparency, just to name a relatively new technology. This is done already.