Cuba just announced it will open up its economy for private investments, this is what this guy who ‘breaks it al down’ forgot to say in this 1 minute rant.

Is there any FDI (foreign direct investment) data for Cuba? Are there any meaningful investments other than from a handful of large commodity firms?

Cuba’s annual exports have been well below 1 billion euros for years.

It’s at an early stage, but the site says:

In practice, this means supporting bounded payment-enabled interaction patterns such as voluntary support, paid access to selected content or services, and other small-value actions where privacy-preserving digital payments can be useful without distorting the nature of the platform.

As far as I understand, you will be able donate to your platform or instance, or an instance may have some ‘paid content’ for which you can use the Feditaler instead of the usual commercial payment services.

I am the least person that supports politicians like Meloni, but I don’t support this media ban. It’s essentially a big step to lose anonymity for everyone.

We must regulate social media, not the children (nor the people). If the content on Facebook, Twitter, Tiktok & Co is harmful - which is what the supporters of the social media ban policies say (and I agree that the content is harmful) - we must regulate these platforms. No one needs an ID to access the web.

Nah, this isn’t about a ‘one-China policy’ but rather about money as coal-rich Mongolia aims to boost China trade ties despite dependence risk

Mongolia hopes to boost trade by more than a tenth this ⁠year with China, the biggest destination for its exports of coal and minerals, setting a target that will further boost economic dependence on its giant neighbor.

… China’s demand for Mongolian ‌coal is also likely to grow, [Xu Tianchen, senior analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit] said, after a mining disaster killed 82 people in northern Shanxi, putting pressure on domestic coal supplies.

So it’s the typical turbo-capitalism with Chinese characteristics: money and political coercion.

Nah, this isn’t about a ‘one-China policy’ but rather about money as coal-rich Mongolia aims to boost China trade ties despite dependence risk

Mongolia hopes to boost trade by more than a tenth this ⁠year with China, the biggest destination for its exports of coal and minerals, setting a target that will further boost economic dependence on its giant neighbor.

… China’s demand for Mongolian ‌coal is also likely to grow, [Xu Tianchen, senior analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit] said, after a mining disaster killed 82 people in northern Shanxi, putting pressure on domestic coal supplies.

So it’s the typical turbo-capitalism with Chinese characteristics: money and political coercion.

Nah, this isn’t about a ‘one-China policy’ but rather about money as coal-rich Mongolia aims to boost China trade ties despite dependence risk

Mongolia hopes to boost trade by more than a tenth this ⁠year with China, the biggest destination for its exports of coal and minerals, setting a target that will further boost economic dependence on its giant neighbor.

… China’s demand for Mongolian ‌coal is also likely to grow, [Xu Tianchen, senior analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit] said, after a mining disaster killed 82 people in northern Shanxi, putting pressure on domestic coal supplies.

So it’s the typical turbo-capitalism with Chinese characteristics: money and political coercion.

Yes, and at the same time, Apple has been surrendering to all censorship and surveillance rules made by China without delay.

There is an old documentary from 2021, Profiting from authoritarianism - How Tim Cook surrendered Apple to the Chinese government (Invidious link),

and another one from 2025, Apple’s unsolvable China problem - How Apple sold its soul to an authoritarian regime (Invidious link).

I hope the EU doesn’t give in as it did all too often imo.

I searched a bit but I didn’t find it on YouTube.

And?

This is just another cross-post from one of the ml propaganda channels using a left-wing extremist source that is known not just for its anti-Western stance but, more importantly, for spreading conspiracy theories.

They wanted to open an office in Tehran but the Iranian government didn’t offer them enough space.

They wanted to open an office in Tehran but the Iranian government didn’t offer them enough space.

The Iranian government increases its repression using the war as pretext (not in the least as the ruling class fears new protests as soon as the war ends). An end to the regime in Tehran would help the Iranians.

Yeah, but the US isn’t the only problem. While European banks and some Canadian banks reduced their fossil financing, some US, Japanese, and Chinese banks were responsible for the largest year-on-year increases.

From the original report:

-Over a third of the world’s largest banks (26 of 65) reduced their fossil financing from the previous year, with some European banks and some Canadian banks driving most of that progress.

-The remaining 39 banks moved in the opposite direction, and some US, Japanese, and Chinese banks were responsible for the largest year-on-year increases.

-On balance, the world’s 65 largest banks committed $906 billion to companies conducting business in fossil fuels in 2025, up $64 billion or 7.6% from 2024.

-Since 2021, global banks have funneled over $4.2 trillion in financing to fossil fuels, including $2.1 trillion to fossil firms in expansion.

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Dealmakers and Dealtakers: Top Bank Financing by Country 2025

The US dominates as a financial center providing bank financing for fossil fuels. This petrostate also jumps off the chart (below) as the nation receiving the most fossil fuel debt from banks. In fact, US fossil fuel corporations received 45.4% of all fossil fuel financing in 2025. Comparing countries’ total bank fossil financing to their fossil fuel company borrowers, the US is an outlier. It is the only Big Six financial center [comprising the U.S., Canada, Japan, EU, China, UK] whose fossil firms receive more bank financing than its banks provide. Japanese banks, on the other hand, provide much more financing than the country’s fossil sector receives. In China, the volume of bank financing to fossil firms is about equal to the amount received by fossil firms. This is at least partly explained by China’s more insular financing model: about 86% of 2025 fossil financing from Chinese banks went to Chinese comp

From the original report:

-Over a third of the world’s largest banks (26 of 65) reduced their fossil financing from the previous year, with some European banks and some Canadian banks driving most of that progress.

-The remaining 39 banks moved in the opposite direction, and some US, Japanese, and Chinese banks were responsible for the largest year-on-year increases.

-On balance, the world’s 65 largest banks committed $906 billion to companies conducting business in fossil fuels in 2025, up $64 billion or 7.6% from 2024.

-Since 2021, global banks have funneled over $4.2 trillion in financing to fossil fuels, including $2.1 trillion to fossil firms in expansion.

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Dealmakers and Dealtakers: Top Bank Financing by Country 2025

The US dominates as a financial center providing bank financing for fossil fuels. This petrostate also jumps off the chart (below) as the nation receiving the most fossil fuel debt from banks. In fact, US fossil fuel corporations received 45.4% of all fossil fuel financing in 2025. Comparing countries’ total bank fossil financing to their fossil fuel company borrowers, the US is an outlier. It is the only Big Six financial center [comprising the U.S., Canada, Japan, EU, China, UK] whose fossil firms receive more bank financing than its banks provide. Japanese banks, on the other hand, provide much more financing than the country’s fossil sector receives. In China, the volume of bank financing to fossil firms is about equal to the amount received by fossil firms. This is at least partly explained by China’s more insular financing model: about 86% of 2025 fossil financing from Chinese banks went to Chinese comp

From the original report:

-Over a third of the world’s largest banks (26 of 65) reduced their fossil financing from the previous year, with some European banks and some Canadian banks driving most of that progress.

-The remaining 39 banks moved in the opposite direction, and some US, Japanese, and Chinese banks were responsible for the largest year-on-year increases.

-On balance, the world’s 65 largest banks committed $906 billion to companies conducting business in fossil fuels in 2025, up $64 billion or 7.6% from 2024.

-Since 2021, global banks have funneled over $4.2 trillion in financing to fossil fuels, including $2.1 trillion to fossil firms in expansion.

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Dealmakers and Dealtakers: Top Bank Financing by Country 2025

The US dominates as a financial center providing bank financing for fossil fuels. This petrostate also jumps off the chart (below) as the nation receiving the most fossil fuel debt from banks. In fact, US fossil fuel corporations received 45.4% of all fossil fuel financing in 2025. Comparing countries’ total bank fossil financing to their fossil fuel company borrowers, the US is an outlier. It is the only Big Six financial center [comprising the U.S., Canada, Japan, EU, China, UK] whose fossil firms receive more bank financing than its banks provide. Japanese banks, on the other hand, provide much more financing than the country’s fossil sector receives. In China, the volume of bank financing to fossil firms is about equal to the amount received by fossil firms. This is at least partly explained by China’s more insular financing model: about 86% of 2025 fossil financing from Chinese banks went to Chinese comp

People don’t like genociders here.

Unfortunately this is not true for all users and all ‘genociders’ … There is a community here on Lemmy that supports dictatorships, including their genocidal policies.

What an absurdly weird comment. Chinese brands are among the least trusted, and there are a lot of brands people trust, but they apparently don’t trust brands from China.

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