You’ll easily find alternative sources reporting on the issue.

Yeah, I also don’t understand why anyone is listening to them or how (if so) this adds up for those who pay them. But the biggest problem aren’t the influencers but rather those authoritarian states actors that intentionally seek to undermine democratic societies by sowing division, inciting hatred, spreading false news.

Yes, I read this. Lula isn’t so serious about protecting human rights as he claims to be. I hope Europe shows more consistency.

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What the link doesn’t say why Brazil put China’s BYD on list of shame for workers’ past slavery-like conditions

Chinese workers hired by Jinjiang in Brazil had to hand over their passports to their new employer, let most ​of their wages be sent directly to China, and fork over an almost $900 deposit that they could only get back after ‌six ⁠months’ work, according to a labor contract …

A raid by labor inspectors also found the laborers living crammed in lodgings without mattresses. Thirty-one workers were crammed in a single house with only one bathroom and food piled up on the ground alongside personal belongings, in what inspectors said were “degrading conditions.”

It’s not difference to BYD Hungary, and it’s reportedly even worse at BYD’s Chinese factories.

Yes, but Spain appears to be ‘special’ in that Sanchez has taken over the government exactly on the promise of cleaning up Spanish politics, but now we can see that his Socialists are the same as the far-right. And they are collaborating in very sensitive areas with the largest dictatorship in history.

Nah, the biggest problem are those authoritarian states actors that intentionally seek to undermine democratic societies by sowing division, inciting hatred, spreading false news.

the Chinese can cut off supply of new heat pumps, but all your existing heat pumps will still be there and will still work.

No. As someone already said, a remote control with the data on servers in China is apparently a bad idea. In addition, Europe must produce the pumps and its components on the continent where we have better labour rights and social welfare systems. We don’t need cheap products made by slave labour with intransparent supply chains under a dictatorial regime.

@calavera@lemmy.zip

Yes, it’s good that a few stand up for the right thing, but Pedro Sanchez is just standing up for himself. He has been attempting to sell Spain to China, a government not famous exactly for its positive human rights record (thankfully he was not always successful in this, but the Spanish judicial wiretap system now depends on Huawei). And the corruption scandals surrounding family members (like his brother; his wife just got banned from leaving the country) and close political allies have been piling up in recent years and months.

Sanchez talking about human rights and the rule of law feels like satire.

@hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz

Political power. The incluencers are not so much a problem as the authoritarian states seeking to promote their propaganda.

The much bigger problem imo are the authoritarian states that pay the influencers for the propaganda.

Yes, but it’s important imo that Europe produces heat pumps and components itself rather than importing it from countries like China. It wouldn’t make sense to replace dependence from Russian fossil fuels by dependence on Chinese technology.

What a weird comment.

‘Rapists and murderers’ in Russian army rampage while home from front

Russian soldiers at home have been killing, maiming, raping and looting at record rates since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The number of murders also appears to be increasing year-on-year. In 2025, the total sum was one-and-a-half times more than in 2024 and 16 times more than in the first year of the full-scale war.

Sexual violence committed by soldiers also climbed sharply. Between 2022 and 2025, courts reviewed 549 cases of rape and other forms of sexual assault. At least 312 involved minors and almost 250 involved young children under the age of 14. 2025 alone saw 248 cases, making it a record year.

Cases of robbery and looting, too, have seen distinct increases. 659 cases of robbery and armed robbery involving servicemen were filed from 2022 to the end of 2025. The real figure is likely to be many times higher, since looting in conflict zones and border regions rarely result in court cases or prosecutions.

The authors of the report caution that the real figures are likely to be far higher than the available data shows. Court records do not account for cases still being investigated and former soldiers are not included in the data … There is also almost no data available from the occupied territories of Ukraine, where Russian soldiers are likely to feel an even greater sense of impunity in pillaging and committing violent and sexual crimes.

What a hilarious kind of projection is this? Your own post history is nothing else than criticizing ‘the system you live in,’ so you’re the best example that you can criticize the system.

Whenever you criticize the Chinese system in China however, it gets immediately deleted and you disappear.

This whole post is gobbledygook.

Your comment amounts to nothing than whataboutism.

There is no misinformation here. Iran has a brutal regime that has been repressing its people for decades. The fact that Israel and other states committed similar war crimes doesn’t make Iran any better.

Sanchez’s hypocritical stance is obvious. It has nothing to do what others do.

Spain’s PM is a hypocritical politician who has no problem to collaborate with dictatorships like China and Iran, while at the same time not only criticizing his allies in the EU but even undermining European security.

Whataboutism? The US, Russia, North Korea, and many others are also committing terrible crimes.

But all this doesn’t heal Sanchez’s double standards regarding Iran while at the same time cooperating with dictatorships like China. This is about Spain and his PM.

The next whataboutism?

Sanchez is just trying to distract from corruption scandals involving close political allies, his wife, and his brother, followed by lost regional election in Spain of late, dozens of dead victims in train crashes, … he just fights for his job, he is a fundamentally immoral and hypocritical personality.

You don’t refer to my comment.

It is hypocritical to oppose one human rights violation like the war in Iran, but then collaborate with a dictatorship like China that is committing crimes against humanity on a large scale.

Then read my comment again. It is hypocritical to oppose one human rights violation like the war in Iran, but then collaborate with a dictatorship like China that is committing crimes against humanity on a large scale.

It is deeply hypocritical. You can’t collaborate with Iran, China, and other dictatorships and then speak of human rights. Sanchez seeks to distract from his own troubles - a series of corruption scandals, the recent train crashes, his Socialist party’s lost regional elections of late.