The European measures represent even far less than what China has been doing. Non-Chinese companies can’t establish a subsidiary in China, they always need a Chinese partner that would then own the majority of the Chinese joint venture. And that’s just one among many other protectionist rules that illustrate how the Chinese Communist Party shields its domestic supply chains, including the use of forced labour.

That’s a deeply hypocritical, artificially constructed outcry by a Chinese regime that more and more depends on exports amid soft domestic demand. They are nervous.

This has been happening in Russia since the Kremlin started its invasion as Russia Admitted to Draft Problems as Anger Flares Into Violence already in 2022. It’s just that in Russia, these incidents are now censored.

In related reports last year, Russia stepped up attacks on Ukrainian draft offices.

In the last couple of weeks alone, Bloomberg published a series of articles with, say, similar headlines:

Deutsche Bank Says China Is Energy ‘Winner’ in Age of War (9 April)

How China Is Winning The War With Iran (1 April)

China Can Win Big With Little Treats (29 March)

It is the prolongation of a series of similarly worded headline with similar narratives over the last years, maybe best presented in one of Bloomberg’s article in December 2025, titled, “Give Up On Winning Against China”.

You’ll easily find these example and ample evidence of similarly worded headlines by Bloomberg, a media company that has been collaborating with China for some time now.

Examples:

• China Universal Asset Management and Bloomberg Establish Strategic Collaboration
• China Construction Bank and Bloomberg Deepen Collaboration

Does the independent media outlet’s collaboration with China pay off? Who is the winner?

The account @Wakmrow@lemmy.world - at their alt account @Wakmrow@hexbear.net - is not onky ok with intimidation In their propaganda communities, they are even celebrating violence against civilians, including children, and the genocide against innocent people, as one study says:

… The presence of left-wing extremism on the Lemmygrad. ml instance of the decentralized social media platform Lemmy … reveal a substantial increase in user activity and toxicity levels following the migration of these subreddits to Lemmygrad. ml. …

[Users] frequently share posts that support authoritarian regimes, as seen in their support for China, North Korea, and Russia. Moreover, their support can extend beyond backing these authoritarian regimes, even cheering on their violent actions, as evidenced by their posts on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Everyone who thinks the study is incorrect for whatever reason is free to go to the instances and read their posts and comments there. They are testimony of a deeply repugnant mindset.

Cheering tbe violence against innocent people is - at best - the result of brainwashing, and it is mentally derailed at worst. You can have a different opinion, like different things, agree where others disagree. Even whataboutism, as bad as it is, remains on a higher human level. But literally cheering the suffering of innocent people is, in my opinion, unreconcilable with human civilization in the 21st century.

This Wakmrow is one of these tankies, so save your breathe I would say.

What are reliable sources in your opinion to examine China’s genocidal policies?

@Wakmrow@lemmy.world

@Wakmrow@hexbear.net

Instead of questioning sources, you could just name sources on China’s genocidal politics that you think are reliable. Where are they?

Rule 1: Title must match the article headline

• Russia’s losses amount to 65,000 soldiers dead or injured over the last two months alone

• Russian fatalities in Ukraine in the four years of the full-scale war are five times greater than all Russian and Soviet wars since World War Two combined

• Moscow’s losses in Ukraine are now more than 17 times greater than the Soviet Union’s losses in Afghanistan (1979-1989) and 11 times greater than Russian forces killed in both Chechen wars (1994-1996, 1999-2009)

• In January, Zelenskiy said 50,000 Russian losses per month would be “the optimal level” to ensure Russian losses in Ukraine became unsustainable for Moscow to replace with new recruits

Source

What is the difference between Russia and the US?

Just this week, Kirill Dmitriev, Putin’s “economic envoy” who also serves as CEO of Russia’s Direct Investment Fund, pitches that joint US-Russia projects of 14 trillion USD, contingent on a peace agreement in Ukraine and the lifting of Western sanctions.

Also this week we heard that Gentry Beach, a US investor with close ties to the Trump family, signed an agreement with Russia’s energy giant Novatek already last autumn to develop natural gas in Alaska amid Western sanctions against Russia.

Truump’s negotiators for peace in Ukraine are Steven Witkoff and and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, two real estate developers and investor. What do they negotiate?

If such polls are useful at all then only to distract from reality. That helps autocratic regimes as they make autocratic regimes like Russia and China look as the lesser evil. It’s not true, though.

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Spain under Sanchez’s government has been ‘courting’ China for some years now, and the prime minister is intensifying it of late. Unfortunately, this has less to do with a strategy aimed at benefiting the Spanish economy and its people imo but rather with Sanchez’s fight for political survival. Sanchez is facing corruption scandals involving his brother, his wife, and close political allies of this socialist party. The recent resignation of a police chief over accusations of rape is adding to Sanchez problems. He needs some distractions it seems.

This statement makes no sense. China’s mercantilism - pushing for trade surpluses in practically all industries - wouldn’t even work if pursued by all countries (a trade surplus for everyone is logically impossible, and it doesn’t end well as we have seen in the Europe 300 or so years ago).

Beijing is subsidizing some sort of a zombie economy as many companies would long be shut down without massive state subsidies that go well beyond what can be considered reasonable. In the EV industry, for example, only 15 of 129 Chinese EV brands are expected to be profitable by 2030, according to a report from last year.

The US and China are artificially creating economic imbalances, it’s just that one is doing it mainly by tariffs and the other by deliberately producing oversupply.

Just read and wanted to post the same story. Here is an archived version: https://archive.ph/YNOqG

Chinese propagandists spread that false news heavily also here on Lemmy (you’ll easily find the posts), despite the fact that even a quick research using easily available data has proven otherwise.

The Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post is a propaganda medium under the censorship rule of the Chinese Communist Party. This is not a credible source.

I firmly believe that China wants both a weak Russia and a weak Europe, or at least a Europe that is distracted by the Ukraine war. Beijing want the war to prolong as long as it gets, but they don’t want neither side to win imo.

In a letter to the Financial Times entitled “The scenario that economic warfare experts fear the most” was enlightening, Eric Golson, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Surrey int the UK, provides valuable insights about why China support Russia, and possible consequences as well as necessary reactions by the UK and West:

… Despite the public displays of unity between Xi and Putin, China has a vested interest in a prolonged conflict. Like the US, it benefits from a weakened Russia, allowing Beijing to expand its geopolitical influence while Moscow remains distracted and depleted.

The scenario which concerns economic warfare specialists most is a Russian failure in Ukraine followed by internal Russian fragmentation, continuing the imperial disintegration that began in 1991. In that event, China could expand north and east, extending influence into oil and gas-rich regions such as Kamchatka, Sakhalin and parts of the Sakha region. These are territories China once held under the Qing dynasty. Control of this energy would strengthen China’s global position and reduce its vulnerability to pressure over Taiwan and the South China Sea. This is a plausible outcome if the Ukraine war drags on, yet there is little evidence of serious contingency planning in Whitehall or Washington … [Archived]

China should stop supporting Russia.

Yeah, that’s great ‘news.’

Just two months ago, in December 2025, the same news has been published by the same outlet and written by the same author (see here).

Reuters new agency reported about that already in November 2024.

And this is by far not everything. The web is full with it. This same story has been appearing in the various outlets for several years now, mostly citing a ‘new’ study or ‘Chinese state media’ reports so that there is a reason to present it as ‘new.’

And it’s not the first time that OP is repeatedly posting the same ‘news’ over and again, just with a different framing, and obviously only to make China look good and to promote its propaganda.

That’s a big issue in South Africa at the moment. A letter by a South African reader to one of the media outlets there summaries it quiet good:

Government incompetence or bias towards China? - Trade decisions favour Chinese imports to the detriment of South Africans

TL;DR: Cheap Chinese goods like EVs or consumer products from Temu are floodin South African markets at the cost of domestic manufacturing and the loss of local jobs, but the government says this should be addressed by the industries concerned, not the government.

It is noteworthy that South Africa has been trading with China at a huge deficit. While bilateral trade has increased substantially from 2022 to 2024, Chinese imports into South Africa were around 22b billion US dollars annually while South African exports to China made up just around 12 billion US dollars annually (according to the Comtrade database).

South Africa’s trade deficit with China has also increased in the long term.

As an addition, we must again regognize that tankies and other extremists literally celebrate these actions by Russia as one study says:

… The presence of left-wing extremism on the Lemmygrad. ml instance of the decentralized social media platform Lemmy … reveal a substantial increase in user activity and toxicity levels following the migration of these subreddits to Lemmygrad. ml. …

[Users] frequently share posts that support authoritarian regimes, as seen in their support for China, North Korea, and Russia. Moreover, their support can extend beyond backing these authoritarian regimes, even cheering on their violent actions, as evidenced by their posts on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Everyone who thinks the study is incorrect for whatever reason is free to go to the instances and read their posts and comments there. They are testimony of a deeply repugnant mindset.