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  • Greens ‘will not back von der Leyen’ for re-election if she does deal with far right

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  • Russian firms pivot to crypto In global trade with their Chinese counterparts as sanctions take a hit

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  • This is a myth. It's just a good way to transfer money fast and at very low cost. If you want to do illegal stuff and/or try to hide your money trail, you wouldn't use a public ledger.

  • Russia: Loss of state-owned energy giant Gazprom, the first in decades, shows the Kremlin's struggle to fill EU gas sales gap with China

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  • This week, the Kremlin issued a decree to halt Gazprom dividends this year. A strange move if it 'was expected to begin with', especially if we cpnsider that the Kremlin relies heavily on Gazprom to fuel its war machine.

    And the alternative markets in Asia may or may not come for Russia's future, but they don't come anytime soon as Russia simply lacks the infrastructure to these destinations. According to an Analysis by the Atlantic Council, building the pipelines would cost USD 100 billion, and you can't build them overnight. That takes a very long time, time Moscow doesn't seem to have.

    So call it a loss or whatever you want, but Gazprom is in big trouble, and so is the Kremlin.

  • Estonia says Russia removed navigation buoys on border river

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  • China will reportedly install cameras with a facial recognition system in Hungary

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  • For the Chinese dissidents it could be bad, maybe also for the Hungarians in the long run. Orban risks the country's status in Nato and in the EU (if the EU blocks again the funds for Hungary as they did not long ago, it could also be harmful for Orban&friends, well, yeah ...).

  • Car makers BMW, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Volkswagen (VW) used parts made by supplier with links to Chinese forced labour, U.S. probe says

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  • Forced labour in Chinese prisons isn't limited to Xinjiang, nor to the car industry. A lot products we use in Europe and North America and elsewhere around the globe are made by Chinese prisoners forced to work under catastrophic conditions.

    There is strong evidence for this provided by many independent sources, among them a documentary by Arte (a French-German media outlet). If interested:

    Forced Labour - SOS from a Chinese Prisoner -- (documentary, 95 min.)

    A desperate cry for help written in Chinese was discovered in a pregnancy test sold in France and made in a Chinese factory. It revealed a hidden world of Chinese prison-companies where prisoners are forced to work for 15 hour days manufacturing products for export. This documentary tries to find out who wrote the letter.

    (And, yes, prison labour exists also in the U.S., and it is as evil, but this doesn't make the autocratic Chinese government any better.)

  • Prime Minister of Estonia: NATO troops training in Ukraine will not lead to an escalation of war

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  • As long as Russia hasn't left Ukraine, there is no such thing as security for Europe.

  • The coordination network toolkit: a framework for detecting and analysing coordinated behaviour on social media

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  • This is maybe a good idea. What would an emoji analysis tell us about a network? 😃

  • We need to talk about Chinese and US influence in Europe’s energy industry, European researchers say

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  • China wouldn't agree with your view I guess.

  • European made batteries could be 60% less carbon intensive than Chinese, researchers urging Europe to support investments

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  • I don't like the term 'gigafactory' either, it's just that I didn't want to change the original version ... (but I altered the title now :-))

  • Tariffs on China aren't the way to win the EV arms race – getting serious on EVs is

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  • It's very unlikely that Chinese cars are sold at a loss.

    Even if we ignore for a moment that Chinese cars are produced at such low costs not in the least because of the use of forced labour and thus by ignoring even the most fundamental human rights, China will subsidize its EV industry at all costs, also offering dumping prices. China's 'industrial policy' isn't focused on financial health but on scale to destroy foreign competition to control the market for economic and political gains.

  • Polish judge seeks political asylum in Belarus

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  • Bugging equipment found in room where Polish government was to meet

    Bugging devices were found in a room where Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was scheduled to meet with his Cabinet on Tuesday, an official said.

    The Cabinet ministers were meeting in Katowice, a southwestern Polish city where Tusk was attending an economic conference.

    Jacek Dobrzyński, the spokesperson for the head of Poland’s secret services, said a routine security check uncovered equipment that could be used for recording or eavesdropping.

    He wrote on social media on Tuesday morning that “the State Protection Service, in cooperation with the Internal Security Agency, detected and dismantled devices that could be used for eavesdropping in the room where the meeting of the Council of Ministers is to be held today in Katowice.”

    “The services are conducting further activities in this matter,” he added.

    The Cabinet traditionally holds a weekly meeting in Warsaw but exceptionally held it in Katowice due to the European Economic Congress taking place there, at which European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen delivered a speech.

    Tusk and the government ministers went to Katowice on Tuesday morning by train.

  • China's Xi Jinping in Paris: “It’s a slap in the face that Emmanuel Macron is giving us,” say the Uighurs of France

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  • French lawmakers officially recognise China’s treatment of Uyghurs as ‘genocide’ --- (2022)

    France's parliament on Thursday denounced a "genocide" by China against its Uyghur Muslim population [...] The non-binding resolution, adopted with 169 votes in favour and just one against [...] reads that the National Assembly "officially recognises the violence perpetrated by the People's Republic of China against the Uyghurs as constituting crimes against humanity and genocide".

    It also calls on the French government to undertake "the necessary measures within the international community and in its foreign policy towards the People's Republic of China" to protect the minority group in the Xinjiang region.

  • UK ministers acknowledge detention of asylum seekers to be sent to Rwanda

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  • Yeah, it would be interesting to know why the Guardian did it.

  • UK ministers acknowledge detention of asylum seekers to be sent to Rwanda

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  • "People are ultimately breaking into our country" isn't used in the article.

    The Guardian must have changed that. I copied and pasted the phrase from the article. (They also say now that Downing Street 'denied this' instead of 'categorically denied this', a minor edit).

    I changed the title now.

  • Iraqi refugee's 7-year old daughter who died in the Channel was born in Belgium and lived in Sweden, but has never been in Iraq

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  • Yeah, just posted this in another comm as the 7-year old's father is a construction worker according to the article:

    Construction Skills Shortage Threatens Infrastructure Projects in the UK

    A dire shortage of construction skills and persistent planning delays pose significant threats to infrastructure projects, despite heightened interest from pension funds to invest in the sector.

  • Iraqi refugee's 7-year old daughter who died in the Channel was born in Belgium and lived in Sweden, but has never been in Iraq

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  • As the 7-year old's father is a construction worker according to the article, this is on topic:

    Construction Skills Shortage Threatens Infrastructure Projects

    A dire shortage of construction skills and persistent planning delays pose significant threats to infrastructure projects, despite heightened interest from pension funds to invest in the sector.

  • Staffer of Germany's right-wing AfD arrested over China espionage suspicions

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  • An example how the Chinese government is using espionage in its own country.

    10 ‘spy’ cases China’s Ministry of State Security wants you to know about

    In most of the world 15 April goes unnoticed. But in China, 15 April is Chinese National Security Education Day.

    To mark the occasion, China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) posted a half-hour video on their official WeChat channel titled "Innovation Leads · Forging the Sword of National Security". WeChat is China’s dominant social media app. Chinese and foreign media also covered the program’s release.

    Here is an alternative link to the video posted in the article: https://invidious.protokolla.fi/watch?v=z8qdFHT9t3k

  • EU parliament to back ban on forced labour with eye on China

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  • Stories of Uyghur Forced Labour

    Numerous reports have highlighted the scale and forms of state-imposed forced labour in the Uyghur Region. Behind every report, there are individuals with families and friends, and communities being exploited and forced to work against their will. Learn about the experiences of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and Kyrgyz who have been directly impacted by state-imposed forced labour in the Uyghur Region.

    Forced Labour - SOS from a Chinese Prisoner - (documentary, 95 min)

    A desperate cry for help written in Chinese was discovered in a pregnancy test sold in France and made in a Chinese factory. It revealed a hidden world of Chinese prison-companies where prisoners are forced to work for 15 hour days manufacturing products for export. This documentary tries to find out who wrote the letter.