Every legal resident in an EU country is entitled to open a “basic payment account”. Banks cannot refuse your application for a basic payment account just because you don’t live in the country where the bank is established.

Rote Hilfe is registered in Germany. What the article does not say is that they openly support, among others, the Red Army Faction (RAF). The RAF was engaged in a series of bombings, assassinations, kidnappings, bank robberies particularly in the 1970s and 1980s. The Rote Hilfe has never distanced itself from the RAF and its criminal activities, and have reportedly even openly supported the few RAF members still wanted by authorities.

That should be added if such an article is published. I am personally not very happy with media outlets like this Jacobin. Not being far-right is not enough. If you read such media, you now exactly what narratives you get before you even click the link.

“U.S.-China economic relations have become stable and more constructive since May 2025,” HSBC analysts said.

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And now President Xi has said China will strive to do better than the targets in your new national climate plan – or your NDC [Nationally Determined Contribution].

To put that in context: China has set its own NDC (deliberatly?) low. As the scientists at the Climate Action Tracker (CAT) say

Historically, China has calibrated its climate commitments to levels that are largely achievable under existing policies and investment trends, allowing room for over-delivery.

Referring to China’s 2035 NDC targets, the analysis adds,

… despite structural improvement, this target is unlikely to further lower emissions … There is a substantial gap between the NDC targets and the reductions needed to align with 1.5°C …

As the CAT researchers conclude and you can see on their site, China is among the countries most behind when it comes to reach the Paris agreement.

But it’s a good speech by the diplomat at the Chinese university and it fits OP’s ongoing propaganda move.

And now President Xi has said China will strive to do better than the targets in your new national climate plan – or your NDC [Nationally Determined Contribution].

To put that in context: China has set its own NDC (deliberatly?) low. As the scientists at the Climate Action Tracker (CAT) say

Historically, China has calibrated its climate commitments to levels that are largely achievable under existing policies and investment trends, allowing room for over-delivery.

Referring to China’s 2035 NDC targets, the analysis adds,

… despite structural improvement, this target is unlikely to further lower emissions … There is a substantial gap between the NDC targets and the reductions needed to align with 1.5°C …

As the CAT researchers conclude and you can see on their site, China is among the countries most behind when it comes to reach the Paris agreement.

But it’s a good speech by the diplomat at the Chinese university and it fits OP’s ongoing propaganda move.

And now President Xi has said China will strive to do better than the targets in your new national climate plan – or your NDC [Nationally Determined Contribution].

To put that in context: China has set its own NDC (deliberatly?) low. As the scientists at the Climate Action Tracker (CAT) say

Historically, China has calibrated its climate commitments to levels that are largely achievable under existing policies and investment trends, allowing room for over-delivery.

Referring to China’s 2035 NDC targets, the analysis adds,

… despite structural improvement, this target is unlikely to further lower emissions … There is a substantial gap between the NDC targets and the reductions needed to align with 1.5°C …

As the CAT researchers conclude and you can see on their site, China is among the countries most behind when it comes to reach the Paris agreement.

But it’s a good speech by the diplomat at the Chinese university and it fits OP’s ongoing propaganda move.

I fully agree, but there is already Ubuntu Touch. It’s a great mobile OS imo, but it indeed lacks mass adoption as you say, and so you may miss some apps.

I don’t know which countries you’d call a proxy in this context, but the BRICS problems arise from within. This has nothing to do with the US or anyone else. This was never a bloc of countries based on mutual trust imo, and with the governments in the major BRICS countries it will never be.

[Edit for clarity.]

I weirdly managed to make a typo in both the original and archived link … But now it’s corrected. Sorry.

China … called … to “respect the ​wishes of firms and ​market principles, and avoid the ⁠abuse of administrative coercive measures”.

What a nice statement by a government that has been doing exactly the opposite and coerces literally every ‘ally’ whenever it thinks to gain an advantage.

It’s another reason not to read ‘Politico’ (and OP’s posts, who frequently cross-posts Chinese and Russian propaganda narratives).

The title of strongly misleading as there is just a single reference to Ukraine’s accession bid at the end of article, and all it says that it will be a longer process. This might be true, but the EU’s enlargement process is historically slow, with past candidates often requiring several years of negotiations. However, the EU has made it clear it’s ready to speed the process up. Kos and Kallas (the EU’s commissioners for enlargement and foreign policy, respectively) announced just this week to open all clusters for Ukraine’s and Moldova’s accesssion talks before this summer.

This is a clickbaity headline.

Meanwhile, China’s domestic sales of new cars in April fell by 22 percent from a year earlier, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. China seems to depend on export markets now more than ever.

That’s part of so-called “Chinamaxxing” that started on Tiktok some time ago and has now arrived to other social media platforms, spread by influencers and other propagandists like OP.

As one article by the BBC says,

One of the most influential figures behind the Chinamaxxing meme is Sherry Zhu, a Chinese-American TikTok content creator who regularly shares traditional wellness tips with her “Chinese baddies”.

“Tomorrow you’re turning Chinese,” she tells her 740,000 TikTok followers. “And I know that sounds intimidating, but there is no point in fighting it now.”

That’s part of so-called “Chinamaxxing” that started on Tiktok some time ago and has now arrived to other social media platforms, spread by influencers and other propagandists like OP.

As one article by the BBC says,

One of the most influential figures behind the Chinamaxxing meme is Sherry Zhu, a Chinese-American TikTok content creator who regularly shares traditional wellness tips with her “Chinese baddies”.

“Tomorrow you’re turning Chinese,” she tells her 740,000 TikTok followers. “And I know that sounds intimidating, but there is no point in fighting it now.”

The group of 60 states that discuss the fossil fuel phase out as described in the linked article formed during the latest COP last year in Brazil as the majority of governments refused to commit to an end of fossil fuels. China and the US, both among the world’s largest polluters in total as well as per capita, are among these countries. They have no interest in a fossil fuel phase out.

@yes_this_time@lemmy.world

The group of 60 states that discuss the fossil fuel phase out as described in the linked article formed during the latest COP last year in Brazil as the majority of governments refused to commit to an end of fossil fuels. China and the US were among these countries.

US, oil producing countries, Europe are generally a lot worse than China on a per capita consumption basis.

If we look at the CO₂ emissions per capita of the world’s top 30 economies by GDP, China sits at number 9 with 8.7 tons per year and person (in 2024). This is more than double the global average and more than any European country except Russia.

China’s climate action’s are also highly insufficient, including against the country’s fair share regarding its National Determined Contributions (NDCs). It’s not that Europe is on track to achieve the Paris goals, but it’s much better than China.

Despite a rise in renewable energy investments, coal has re-emerged as an ongoing force in China’s power system in recent years for a variety of reasons, and this is also clearly embedded in Beijing’s recently released new 15th Five-Year Plan.

It’s time that Europe revives its own renewable energy industry. Environmental laws regarding production and consumption are much stronger in Europe than in China, and so it is better for Europe from a security point of view.

China, the world’s biggest polluter, is among the countries that refused to join the group aiming to phase out fossil fuels.

“One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”

The title is a bit misleading as there are only around 60 democratic states that meet to discuss fossil fuel exit. The majority of governments, including the the world’s biggest polluters, are missing, particularly China and the US.

The title is a bit misleading as there are only around 60 democratic states that meet to discuss fossil fuel exit. The majority of governments, including the the world’s biggest polluters, are missing, particularly China and the US.

Trump’s signature on US dollars, now his picture in passports, and all other things Trump has put his name and face on as president … is this some personality cult that we know from other ‘leaders’ like Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Mussolini, …