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It's also important that the UAE is also allegedly supporting crimes against humanity and genocide in China's Xinjiang region. There is ample evidence for Beijing's atrocities against Uyghurs as you may know (you'll find a lot of very reliable sources across the web, some of them even here as I have read).

So Canada must not look only at Sudan but also China.

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Sepia @mander.xyz 2d ago

It is also important in this context that Chinese military was reportedly hosted at base in the UAE. The UAE and China have close military ties and held a joint air force drill in China’s Xinjiang region.

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Sepia @mander.xyz 2d ago

do we(legally) need to protest against each new version over and over again?

Not a legal expert, but I am afraid that's how it is ...

You may wish to write your MEP(s):

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home

Sepia @mander.xyz 2d ago

That's a shame. It may also be important in this context that Chinese military was reportedly hosted at base in the UAE. The UAE and China have close military ties and held a joint air force drill in China’s Xinjiang region.

Sepia @mander.xyz 2d ago

Financial Services firm Morningstar sees European defense stocks as undervalued after the recent overreaction to potential peace deal ignores the real drivers of demand.

The market reaction is overstated. European defense valuations are anchored in structural budget increases rather than short-term Ukraine revenue, and rearmament plans are unlikely to reverse even in the event of a peace agreement ...

European governments’ long-term demand reflects inventory rebuilding, capability and platform scale-up, and autonomy from US support ... to reach 3.5% of GDP on defense spending. These fundamentals remain intact and support order visibility, backlog conversion, and cash generation.

Ukraine procurement is marginal for most contractors. Germany is now the largest single supporter of Ukraine. Yet, Rheinmetall has only EUR 1.7 billion of Ukraine orders within an EUR 64-billion backlog, underscoring the sector’s long-run domestic and NATO-driven demand ...

Sepia @mander.xyz 2d ago

How do you make such an inference? This is a divisive rhetoric out of the blue that is echoing anti-democratic propaganda aimed at sowing division among society.

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Sepia @mander.xyz 2d ago

Aha ...

Chinese robotaxi operator Pony.ai says one of its cars caught fire in Shanghai

Pony.ai Recalls Autonomous Driving Software After Crash in California

Europe needs to build that itself, as much as it needs to 're-industrialize.' The safest and best place to produce things is in Europe as its environmental and social rules are more developed as elsewhere: https://feddit.uk/c/buyeuropean

Sepia @mander.xyz 2d ago

Yeah, that's certainly true. For Europe, however, the continent was rather regulating than building in the past. But it must do both. It's also important to build a strong open source ecosystem in Europe imho. Relying on European Big Tech (Telecom, SAP, ...) is insufficient. I am no sure whether all politicians have gotten this.

Addition: That's basically what @emotional_soup_88@programming.dev says in this thread. I fully agree with that.

Sepia @mander.xyz 3d ago

Wow, what a strongly worded comment.

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Sepia @mander.xyz 3d ago

This is not bullying but legitimate critique. The state that is often bulling its neighbors is elsewhere.

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Sepia @mander.xyz 3d ago

Yeah, the world should rather hail the reasonable people of the governments who are refusing to exit from fossil fuels. These Europeans and their allies get it all wrong (s/, just to be safe).

Sepia @mander.xyz 3d ago

Exactly. There is no option for Europe other than developing its own technology. https://feddit.uk/c/buyeuropean

Sepia @mander.xyz 5d ago

... late in the second week Colombia upstaged their hosts when it announced the creation of an initiative whereby a group of countries would meet to plan the phase out of fossil fuels. The 24-country bloc will meet next April in Santa Marta for a conference co-hosted by Colombia and the Netherlands. Other participating countries include Australia, Austria, Belgium, Cambodia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Luxembourg, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Micronesia, Nepal, Panama, Spain, Slovenia, Vanuatu and Tuvalu.

So basically it is Latin America, Europe, and Island Nations that take serious action to phase out fossil fuels.

The world's two largest polluters - China and the U.S. - as well as Russia and some oil-producing countries in the Middle East are doing business as usual.

I mean all those who have said that China is leading in the fight against climate change shall now be silent. If you read the reports on the COP it is obvious that Beijing is interested in money and in money only.

The BBC wrote on Beijing;s pavillon at the COP 30 in Brazil that China ramps up charm offensive with extra pandas:

Was it the many copies of Xi Jinping’s speeches on sale? Or the ubiquitous cuddly pandas?

Perhaps it was the much-needed fans here for the heat and humidity outside. Whatever the reason, China’s pavilion here proved a huge draw, with long queues forming of people keen to get their hands on Chinese tat.

The pandas definitely seem to be part of the charm offensive from the world’s biggest emitter of planet-warming carbon.

Many expected China to take a bigger leadership role – but the world’s dominant producer of renewable technology has a different view.

China was content to sit quietly and support others who want to slow down the transition away from fossil fuels like India and Saudi Arabia. It is the world’s biggest coal producer after all.

Despite their current power and size, it seems to still suit China to play the role of the developing country that it was when the UN climate body was formed back in 1992. With extra pandas!

Sepia @mander.xyz 1w ago

Thank you for your respectful and sophisticated opinion.

Sepia @mander.xyz 1w ago

A similar case recently happened in Germany, where the country's authorities face heavy criticism after admitting that a 56-year-old Uyghur asylum-seeker was mistakenly put on a plane to China instead of to Turkey.

According to reports (one is here), the woman, Reziwanguli Baikeli, had fled China's Xinjiang region in 2017, lived in Turkey for several years and joined her daughter in Germany in 2024. Uyghurs are recognised by Germany as a group at extreme risk of persecution; informal guidance says they should not be returned to China.

Experts call for Germany (and possibly the whole of Europe) for a federal “white list” of countries to which deportations are categorically barred, similar to policies already used in Sweden and the Netherlands.

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Sepia @mander.xyz 1w ago

A similar case recently happened in Germany, where the country's authorities face heavy criticism after admitting that a 56-year-old Uyghur asylum-seeker was mistakenly put on a plane to China instead of to Turkey.

According to reports (one is here), the woman, Reziwanguli Baikeli, had fled China's Xinjiang region in 2017, lived in Turkey for several years and joined her daughter in Germany in 2024. Uyghurs are recognised by Germany as a group at extreme risk of persecution; informal guidance says they should not be returned to China.

Experts call for Germany (and possibly the whole of Europe) for a federal “white list” of countries to which deportations are categorically barred, similar to policies already used in Sweden and the Netherlands.