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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Graph intelligence leaders will join forces to deliver a customer-proven, open-standards intelligence analysis platform that ensures data sovereignty

copying the united states empire playbook?

The last time the United States saw a trade surplus was 1975, and the country has been experiencing an increasing trade deficit since.

There seems to be crackdown on leftist organizations in progress.

There may or may not be such a crackdown (against left-wing and right-wing organizations). In 2024, for example, the Rote Hilfe openly criticized the state upon the arrest of Daniela Klette as she was arrested the year before, and embraced her actions (you’ll find ample evidence on the web). Wikipedia says about Klette:

Klette is an alleged member of the third generation Red Army Faction active during the 1980s and 1990 … Klette is a suspect in the 1991 United States embassy sniper attack in Bonn and the 1993 explosives attack against Weiterstadt prison under construction in the state of Hesse … In 1999, Klette, Burkhard Garweg, and Ernst-Volker Staub were suspected of robbing DM 1 million from an armoured vehicle in Duisburg.

The Rote Hilfe has been embracing her violence. And this is just an example of what they do.

As I said earlier on, there is no difference between the left-wing and right-wing organizations if and when they intend to topple the democratic state, particularly by violence. This is unacceptable and intolerable imo.

to support prisoners through legal means …

They don’t just support prisoners through legal means, they openly embrace their violence.

The article frames the Rote Hilfe as a charity that is in the world only for the good of humanity. It doesn’t even mention that the organization also supports the RAF and its members, including those who have committed the worst crimes such as assassinations. This is not independent information.

Germany really isn’t in a good place right now. Going the same route as so many other countries (normal conservative parties pandering to far-right populism),

There is a lot wrong in Germany, but it is among the better places to live in if we compare it globally. The countries where minorities and their governments’ political opponents are suppressed are elsewhere, and these are often states that claim to be ‘left-wing’ or ‘socialist’ (exactly the ideologies the Jacobin magazine hails so much). If an organization in Russia or China has a different opinion, then people are not ‘debanked’ but they fall out of a window or disappear in some prison (and if someone criticizes the government in an article, the writer shares the same fate).

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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