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Scotty

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  • 'Our enemy now is Canada' Alan Dershowitz says on Israel policy

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  • Yeah, the sad thing is that here on Lemmy are a lot of accounts pretending to be pro-Canada and pro-democracy while actually spreading Chinese propaganda normalizing genocide in Xinjiang and Tibet. Basically the same thing.

  • The billionaire loophole: How Canada’s tax system fuels inequality

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  • Interesting stuff, especially if we view the wider picture.

    I am using the World Inequality Index cited in the linked report and - as the report does - look how the country's richest 1% increased or decreased their share of the total country's wealth.

    Between 2000 and 2023, Canada's richest 1% increased their share of the country's total wealth from 27% to 29%.

    • In the U.S., the richest 1% increased their share of the country's total wealth from 32% to 35%
    • In China, the richest 1% increased their share of the country's total wealth from 20% to 30%
    • In India, the richest 1% increased their share of the country's total wealth from 20% to 40%

    You'll find that the UK's richest 1% is stable at around 20% between 2000 and 2023, while numbers for Germany and France also remain in the higher 20s.

    So unlike twenty years ago, inequality is now higher in China and India than it is in Canada, at least according to this measure used in the report.

    The global average (purchasing power adjusted) remained more or less unchanged at ~36% in the same period.

    There's a lot to do for humanity everywhere.

    You can look up for other countries if interested here.

  • Canada cannot cozy up to China: "Exposure to a regime that jails dissidents, manipulates international institutions and spies on Canadian citizens is not diversification. It’s submission" - [Opinion]

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  • Canada ... has history of bullying China

    How did Canada do that?

  • Canada cannot cozy up to China: "Exposure to a regime that jails dissidents, manipulates international institutions and spies on Canadian citizens is not diversification. It’s submission" - [Opinion]

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  • So should Canada ignore the U.S.’ bullying and coercion now? Or only China’s bullying and coercion?

  • Canada cannot cozy up to China: "Exposure to a regime that jails dissidents, manipulates international institutions and spies on Canadian citizens is not diversification. It’s submission" - [Opinion]

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  • @Tiger666@lemmy.ca

    Canada is just as bad as all the other countries in the world when it comes to human rights.

    This is, of course, rubbish.

    That aside, I am not sure what you want to say with this and your other statements.

    Should Canada ignore the U.S.' bullying and coercion now?

    Or only China's bullying and coercion?

    Shouldn't Canada improve its democratic institution 'to not fool ourselves'?

    Just business as usual as if nothing happened?

  • Canadians must start caring about potential conflict between China and Taiwan, and press their political leaders to act on deterring such an outcome -- [Opinion]

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  • What are good media sources in your view?

  • Canada cannot cozy up to China: "Exposure to a regime that jails dissidents, manipulates international institutions and spies on Canadian citizens is not diversification. It’s submission" - [Opinion]

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  • Please read the report before posting. It is China that jails dissidents, manipulates international institutions and spies on Canadian citizens.

  • Canada cannot cozy up to China: "Exposure to a regime that jails dissidents, manipulates international institutions and spies on Canadian citizens is not diversification. It’s submission" - [Opinion]

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  • That's an absurdly weird comment There is no such thing as a 'fair trade' with a dictatorship like China that engages in economic coercion, espionage on citizens, transnational repression, election interference, just to name a few examples. China is the exact opposite of the 'social freedoms' as you argue. You don't seem to understand what's going on in this country and the economy.

  • Canada cannot cozy up to China: "Exposure to a regime that jails dissidents, manipulates international institutions and spies on Canadian citizens is not diversification. It’s submission" - [Opinion]

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  • As an addition:

    Responding to questions about Canada's pursuit of increased trade with India and China despite Canadian intelligence agencies reporting political interference, European Union Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection Michael McGrath says that 'where you have evidence' of foreign interference from a nation looking to do more trade, 'you have to address it.' McGrath argues the EU and Canada should be working more closely on online risks: 'Our democracy is under threat.'

  • Canada cannot cozy up to China: "Exposure to a regime that jails dissidents, manipulates international institutions and spies on Canadian citizens is not diversification. It’s submission" - [Opinion]

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  • As an addition:

    Responding to questions about Canada's pursuit of increased trade with India and China despite Canadian intelligence agencies reporting political interference, European Union Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection Michael McGrath says that 'where you have evidence' of foreign interference from a nation looking to do more trade, 'you have to address it.' McGrath argues the EU and Canada should be working more closely on online risks: 'Our democracy is under threat.'

  • Canada cannot cozy up to China: "Exposure to a regime that jails dissidents, manipulates international institutions and spies on Canadian citizens is not diversification. It’s submission" - [Opinion]

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  • As an addition:

    Responding to questions about Canada's pursuit of increased trade with India and China despite Canadian intelligence agencies reporting political interference, European Union Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection Michael McGrath says that 'where you have evidence' of foreign interference from a nation looking to do more trade, 'you have to address it.' McGrath argues the EU and Canada should be working more closely on online risks: 'Our democracy is under threat.'

  • Using China to hedge against Trump’s U.S. is less clever realpolitik than it is dangerous naivety - [Opinion]

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  • I'm not sure whether I understand your comment. There are many options for partnerships in Asia, e.g., Indonesia, South Korea, Japan, Philippines, and many others. Canada should strengthen ties with them imo.

  • Canada Set to Side With China On EVs

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  • I fully agree.

    In addition, we must not forget that there is massive slave-like labour in Chinese supply chains - within China as well as abroad. As I posted in another thread, Brazil is just one recent example for that:

    [In Brazil], in the same month that Chinese BYD’s car carrier arrived in the country, Brazilian prosecutors announced plans to sue BYD and two of its contractors for ‘slave like conditions’ at a factory site. A task force led by Brazilian prosecutors said it rescued 163 Chinese nationals working in “slavery-like” conditions at a construction site [...] where Chinese electric vehicle company BYD is building a factory.

    The [Brazilian] Labor Prosecutor’s Office released videos of the dorms where the [Chinese] construction workers were staying, which showed beds with no mattresses and rooms without any places for the workers to store their personal belongings.

    Officials said [BYD contractor] Jinjiang [...] had confiscated the workers’ passports and held 60% of their wages. Those who quit would be forced to pay the company for their airfare from China, and for their return ticket, the statement said.

    Prosecutors said the sanitary situation at BYD’s site in Camaçari was especially critical, with only one toilet for every 31 workers, forcing them to wake up at 4 a.m. to line up and get ready to leave for work at 5:30 a.m.

    I don't think that Canadians want ChEaP cArS made by slave-labour.

  • Ottawa limits how many American vehicles Stellantis and GM can import tariff-free

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  • Ottawa limits how many American vehicles Stellantis and GM can import tariff-free

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  • Check what percentage of a typical vehicle cost comes from labour. Then from that, check the manufacturing wages in different locations and scale the labour cost by that. That’s will give you the ballpark labour cost advantage between. Then compare that with equivalent vehicle prices.

    Great. Can you please give me reliable numbers so that we can 'check' them?

    The point is that China's supply chain is a black box, and they have been opposing any form of transparency for years.

    On the other hand, there is reliable information of forced labour (not exclusively, but foremost in China's northwestern Xinjiang region, if we speak of cars). So your comment is a distraction.

    We must clearly say it: There is massive slave-like labour in Chinese supply chains - within China as well as abroad.

    To provide an example:

    [In Brazil], in the same month that Chinese BYD’s car carrier arrived in the country, Brazilian prosecutors announced plans to sue BYD and two of its contractors for ‘slave like conditions’ at a factory site. A task force led by Brazilian prosecutors said it rescued 163 Chinese nationals working in “slavery-like” conditions at a construction site [...] where Chinese electric vehicle company BYD is building a factory.

    The [Brazilian] Labor Prosecutor’s Office released videos of the dorms where the [Chinese] construction workers were staying, which showed beds with no mattresses and rooms without any places for the workers to store their personal belongings.

    Officials said [BYD contractor] Jinjiang [...] had confiscated the workers’ passports and held 60% of their wages. Those who quit would be forced to pay the company for their airfare from China, and for their return ticket, the statement said.

    Prosecutors said the sanitary situation at BYD’s site in Camaçari was especially critical, with only one toilet for every 31 workers, forcing them to wake up at 4 a.m. to line up and get ready to leave for work at 5:30 a.m.

  • Ottawa limits how many American vehicles Stellantis and GM can import tariff-free

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  • Yeah, just that you can see how the flood of ChEaP cHiAnA cArS are made, a recent example from Brazil:

    [In Brazil], in the same month that Chinese BYD’s car carrier arrived in the country, Brazilian prosecutors announced plans to sue BYD and two of its contractors for ‘slave like conditions’ at a factory site. A task force led by Brazilian prosecutors said it rescued 163 Chinese nationals working in “slavery-like” conditions at a construction site [...] where Chinese electric vehicle company BYD is building a factory.

    The [Brazilian] Labor Prosecutor’s Office released videos of the dorms where the [Chinese] construction workers were staying, which showed beds with no mattresses and rooms without any places for the workers to store their personal belongings.

    Officials said [BYD contractor] Jinjiang [...] had confiscated the workers’ passports and held 60% of their wages. Those who quit would be forced to pay the company for their airfare from China, and for their return ticket, the statement said.

    Prosecutors said the sanitary situation at BYD’s site in Camaçari was especially critical, with only one toilet for every 31 workers, forcing them to wake up at 4 a.m. to line up and get ready to leave for work at 5:30 a.m.

  • ‘China taking tariffs off doesn’t solve the problem’: What a potential Carney-Xi meeting means for Canada-China relations

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  • There’s 2 accounts from the same instance that started posting that stuff recently.

    Yeah, but there are not just two? I mean, on lemmygrad and hexbear you'll find more than two from the same instance posting the same stuff, and they have been doing it not just recently. No?

  • ‘China taking tariffs off doesn’t solve the problem’: What a potential Carney-Xi meeting means for Canada-China relations

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  • To provide one example among many:

    [In Brazil], in the same month that Chinese BYD’s car carrier arrived in the country, Brazilian prosecutors announced plans to sue BYD and two of its contractors for ‘slave like conditions’ at a factory site. A task force led by Brazilian prosecutors said it rescued 163 Chinese nationals working in “slavery-like” conditions at a construction site [...] where Chinese electric vehicle company BYD is building a factory.

    The [Brazilian] Labor Prosecutor’s Office released videos of the dorms where the [Chinese] construction workers were staying, which showed beds with no mattresses and rooms without any places for the workers to store their personal belongings.

    Officials said [BYD contractor] Jinjiang [...] had confiscated the workers’ passports and held 60% of their wages. Those who quit would be forced to pay the company for their airfare from China, and for their return ticket, the statement said.

    Prosecutors said the sanitary situation at BYD’s site in Camaçari was especially critical, with only one toilet for every 31 workers, forcing them to wake up at 4 a.m. to line up and get ready to leave for work at 5:30 a.m.

  • The coal industry is collapsing

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  • You apparently edit the title which is now misleading.