The Peruvian and Chinese government officials are in the same boat, and the people pay the price.

@zante@slrpnk.net

Do yourself a favor and stay away from wherever you get this stuff.

These US military bases are Nato bases, and no country has ever been ‘forced’ to join the alliance. Its latest members, Sweden and Finland, have been committed to neutrality for decades, and only joined after Russia invaded Ukraine. Neutrality may work well if your neighbors commit to international law and human rights, which is unfortunately not a given as we learnt once again in February 2022.

In related news, search engine Google just announced to roll out a test that gets rid of results from news publishers based in the EU.

This test will affect 1% of users in Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain. We will continue to show results from other websites, including news publishers based outside the EU. We intend to use this test to assess how results from EU news publishers impact the search experience for our users and traffic to publishers.

G does not say when the test will end.

As we know, Google has threatened to pull news links in Canada in response to the Online News Act of 2023 which forced all tech companies to come out with compensation related to linked content with any online news publisher. After months of negotiations, Google agreed to pay $100M each year to Canadian news organizations afaik.

A similar incident happened in California in the U.S. where Google briefly removed links to California news outlets in response to the proposed California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA). The new law would force Google to pay publishers in return for using links to their pages. For now, the bill is yet to be confirmed but Google managed to strike a deal with lawmakers this summer.

Maybe that provided some additional context.

I am wondering whether the recent incident has also something to do with ii:

‘Go to hell’: how Project 2025 chief kicked the Guardian out of book event

Heritage Foundation staff member, introducing Kevin Roberts to the reporter, says: ‘You’ve got two minutes with our best friend Adam from the Guardian’

There are multiple examples of Chinese subsidiaries and/or takeovers of European companies in Europe, but there are no examples of European companies doing the same in China. In no sector. The rules are nowhere the same, not even remotely.

The only Chinese province where completely foreign-owned companies were possible was Xiamen, but that lasted until the 2000s or so (I don’t remember the exact date). Your statements are outright false.

In all what constitutes fair competition, China lacks behind. China is a totally closed shop by any comparable standards with -in addition to that- grave human rights issues in the country, and the situation has been worsening in recent years.

I would be curious to learn more about their revenue model, the article doesn’t say about it. The good thing is that there are no financial investors involved as far as we can learn from the read, it will be interesting to see how this develops imho.

We want the Chinese to open up their markets …

They simply don’t. One necessity of international trade and competition is reciprocity, but in China, foreign companies can’t even establish a subsidiary. They need a Chinese partner who would then own the majority of the joint venture, while the foreigner own a minority stake in the company. And that’s just one issue among many.

In addition, Europe should not replace its dependence on Russian fossil fuels with dependence on Chinese renewable energy technology. That doesn’t make sense.

Falls jemand Nachrichten lieber als Doku haben will:

Chinas Machtansprüche im Südchinesischen Meer — (video, 3 Minuten, abrufbar bis 6. Januar 2025)

Seit fast vier Monaten prangern die Philippinen die Angriffe der chinesischen Patrouillen im Südchinesischen Meer an: Blockierung philippinischer Versorgungsschiffe, Gefährdung von Fischern, Kollisionen auf See, illegal errichtete Barrieren … Peking unternimmt immer mehr Versuche, die Kontrolle über das Südchinesische Meer zu erlangen.

I assume the way how the numbers are presented in the article is a bit misleading. A World Bank statement from March 2024 (pdf) says:

Disruptions to economic flows and production, as well as additional costs associated with war (such as debris management), are collectively measured as loss amounting to over US$499 billion. Reconstruction and recovery needs, as of December 31, 2023, are estimated to be over US$486 billion over the span of ten years.

So I would say the number 486bn is the sum needed for reconstruction over the next 10 years as per the assessment made at end of 2023, while in 2024 Ukraine needs additional money to keep the economy running, manage transport, debris, etc. You’ll see a diagram on the linked pdf.

But this is what I interpret from this World Bank paper, I am not sure.

Your option 1 would mean that Russia is going to attack the next country.

Addition: Russia must be defeated and pay for Ukraine’s reconstruction, Putin and possibly other war criminals face prosecution, Ukraine’s future is in Nato and EU.

An Orban-linked group acquired Euronews back in the spring, reportedly by using public funds provided by the Hungarian state. I was surprised that until now, there appeared to be no visible changes in the editorial policy (the outlet has been very critical of Russia, China, Hungary, etc.). But now things appear to change.

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Here is the same link without amp: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/07/europe/israel-soccer-fans-attacked-amsterdam-intl-hnk/index.html

No stress. I guess things like that can’t be posted often enough as more people (hopefully) sign the petition :-)

Just a reminder that World News on Lemmyworld is not the only community packed with whataboutism.

I guess the agenda of X, WeChat and Douyin, as well as of the of Chinese Communist Party that usually censors everything which is remotely critical of the Chinese government, is obvious.

Done, thanks.

Yeah, it’s not easy. But is there another option?

The German state of Schleswig-Holstein is doing the same. Here is also a good podcast by Nextcloud (one of the state’s partners) if interested.

Open source and Nextcloud in government: Insights from Sven Thomsen, Schleswig-Holstein’s CIO – (podcast, 55 min)

They also discuss Munich in the podcast.

It is certainly a long way, Schleswig-Holstein says it’s a “10-year journey into open source”, but there is no alternative imho.

There is a thread on this already: https://feddit.org/post/4415864

A related article on what is known regarding Russian sabotage activities in Europe:

How and why Russia is conducting sabotage and hybrid-war offensive – (Archived link)

Across Europe, we’re seeing more confirmed or suspected instances of Russian sabotage. It is part of a broader hybrid war campaign against NATO countries, aimed at eroding support for Ukraine and damaging Western cohesion […]

Russia has conducted arson attacks in Poland, Germany, Lithuania, Latvia and Czechia. Other reported sabotage attempts include flying drones over Stockholm airport, jamming of Baltic countries’ civil aviation GPS systems and disruption of French railways on the first day of the Paris Olympics. Facilities linked to supplying Ukraine have also been targeted: a BAE Systems munitions facility in Wales, an air-defence company’s factory in Berlin and a Ukrainian-owned logistics firm in London.

Authorities have arrested suspects for plots to bomb or sabotage a military base in Bavaria and a French facility supporting Ukraine’s war efforts. Agencies disrupted a plot to assassinate the CEO of German arms maker Rheinmetall, a supplier of artillery shells to Ukraine. Latvian authorities tracked down saboteurs dispatched to several countries on paid missions. Norway’s domestic intelligence service warns of the threat of sabotage to train lines and to gas facilities supplying much of Europe.

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The West is running out of non-military options for response, since it is already imposing extensive economic and diplomatic sanctions against Moscow and has limited capacity or opportunity to retaliate in kind inside Russia. Still, a more strenuous response by Western governments is needed.

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