What sources relevant to this topic did you hear of that are reliable?

@supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz

You say, “They look like a mouthpiece for US warhawks”, only then to cite from the about page, “Margaret has been outspoken about arbitrary detention and human rights in China.”

So are people who are outspoken about arbitrary detention and human rights in China “US warhawks”?

And what is a good source on that topic? Just be frank.

What is a reliable source on this topic?

@Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml

Thank you for your sophisticated comment on this topic.

Then click the link and tell them your opinion.

The Financial Exclusion Tracker - a project maintained by some NGOs - lists 14 investment entities that had publicly blacklisted Tesla as per Sepember 2024, the database’s latest available data.

The linked website contains information about the exclusions by 93 financial institutions in 17 countries, covering 5531 companies from 135 countries. There are 63,427 exclusions so far.

The most common motivation for excluding companies is Climate (47%). This is followed by Weapons (14%) and Tobacco (13%). Other categories include Country policy (7%), Product-based exclusion (6%), Human rights (5%), Business practices (3%), Undisclosed motivation (3%), Environment (3%).

The top countries in the exclusion tracker are the U.S. and China, counting for 21% and 15% of all exclusions, respectively.

Very interesting data, you can also download the raw data for own analysis if interested.

After SAP rolled back its DEI guidelines after Trump issued his self-defined “anti-woke” decree, it’s maybe another step taken by SAP for fear of loosing business in the U.S.?

Your comment is blatant propaganda. No one hates China, and this critique comes from Chinese experts within the country.

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This move was planned for some time, but will not change much as benefits for Africa remain limited as it mostly applies to unprocessed, low-value goods.

This “unilateral opening” of China’s massive market seems like a significant opportunity for Africa. However, past tariff exemptions granted by China to several African countries and the nature of trade between them show that the actual benefits for these […] African nations may be limited […]

[…] This is not the first time China has implemented tariff-free policies for African countries […] Since 2005, the total exports of the 27 African countries that regularly benefited from China’s tariff-free policy [saw similar export growth than] the 27 African countries that did not benefit [from tariff-free policies]. This suggests that zero tariffs alone are not the key to increasing export value […]

Also, most African LDCs [least developed countries] export raw materials like minerals and oil to China. This means that the zero-tariff policy mainly boosts unprocessed, low-value goods exports.

The new tariff exemptions now announced cover all African LDCs and add 140 more products, such as rice, wheat, sugar, cotton, soybean oil, cigarettes, timber, wool, and paper - so, again, Africa will likely not benefit much from this “unilateral opening” by China.

Practically all experts agree that African countries need to improve their manufacturing and processing capacities to export higher-value goods. Zero tariffs alone will not fix the trade imbalance between China and its African partners, they say. The linked article provides also a illuminating number: Just five major raw material exporters—Angola, the DRC, Zambia, Mauritania, and Guinea—accounted for 70% of Africa’s exports to China in 2023.

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Playing With Fire: Are Russia’s hybrid attacks the new European war? – [March 2025]

Faced with a dwindling number of experienced intelligence agents on the ground, with many expelled after the start of the war in Ukraine, Russia is now resorting to low-level operatives recruited through Telegram or similar social networks to conduct dozens of attempted or successful attacks in Europe, according to court records and security sources. These “disposable agents” have carried out cyberattacks but also riskier actions that included massive fires, incendiary devices destined for cargo planes, vandalism, and influence campaigns targeting the heart of Europe’s democracies- its voters.

This is the EU Chamber of Commerce, and they are critical of China’s state of the economy. You apparently don’t even understand the report, as your comments don’t make sense. I end this discussion with you now, that’s waste of time.

That never stopped you from uncritically posting actual Chinese government propaganda.

How is a post on a survey published by the European Union Chamber of Commerce “actual Chinese government propaganda”?

Many who can emigrate to Thailand, for example, at least until recently.

The Chinese émigrés leaving the pressures of home for laid back Chiang Mai – [2024]

… [It is a] burgeoning trend [among] Chinese people – particularly millennials – who feel that the country that was supposed to be the powerhouse of the 21st century has little to offer them personally in social, intellectual and spiritual terms. In recent years, an economic downturn and lingering trauma from the isolation of China’s draconian zero-Covid regime has pushed people who would otherwise be seen as the country’s success stories to emigrate […]

“Thailand is certainly not as safe as the US, Europe or Japan,” [one emigrant] says, acutely aware of the fate of Gui Minhai, a Swedish bookseller who was kidnapped from Thailand in 2015, reappearing months later in Chinese custody, an incident which spooked dissidents in Thailand. “But it’s still basically a country with free speech. It basically protects human rights” […]

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Some also come to Europe.

The Chinese migrants hoping for a new life in Germany – [February 2025]

A small but growing number of Chinese people are fleeing home, with their sights set on Germany thanks to its reputation as a safe haven for refugees […]

Ling [not his real name] started thinking about leaving China more than 20 years ago. But it wasn’t until the government’s harsh Covid-19 lockdown restrictions that he seriously considered taking action. During the pandemic he lost his job and saw his salary halve to 3,000 yuan (£326) a month as he picked up replacement work as a delivery driver. He grew increasingly uncomfortable with Feifei’s education, such as her being required to wear the red neckerchief of the Young Pioneers, the Chinese Communist party’s organisation for children aged six to 14. He was appalled when a teacher showed Feifei’s class videos portraying the US and western countries as “bullying China”.

“Education should be about teaching children how to love people around them and society, rather than promoting hatred and distorting the minds of children from an early age,” he says, adding that he felt discriminated against as a Christian […]

Wealthier Chinese are also abandoning their homeland for a new start in Europe. In February this year, Mou [not his real name] and his family landed in Frankfurt for a transfer to Serbia. In the transfer hall, Mou called an emergency family meeting. We’re not going to Serbia, he told his three children, and we’re not going back to China either. Mou, his wife, their children and Mou’s parents approached Frankfurt airport staff and said they wanted to claim asylum. The plane tickets for the family of seven had cost more than 45,500 yuan […]

The South China Morning Post is a state-controlled media outlet that spreads the government’s propaganda.

UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Norway sanction 2 far-right Israeli Cabinet ministers

Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich face asset freezes and travel bans from the five countries.

What does he say about Russia’s ‘military Keynesianism’?

I think Yanis is a hypocrite. No military spending is fine as long as all parties play by the rule of law and accept universal human rights. This is not the case. Yanis is addressing the wrong party here.

I guess this answers your question.

What do they do with the radioactive waste?

Addition: The UK’s largest nuclear site could continue leaking radioactive water until the 2050s, MPs have warned, while its clean-up operations struggle to progress quickly enough

He laments Europe’s military Keynesianism and thinks it’s not wise to spend all that money on defense.

Maybe Yanis could also get an invitation to live in Oleksandr Usyk’s house for a while?. Just to see whether he changes his mind.

Btw, this ‘military Keynesiasm’ - the economic policy stating that war and military spending is the basis for economic growth - is something that has been propagated and implemented by Russia, including by the economist Andrey Belousov, Russia’s current defence minister. Is Russia’s budget well-balanced according to Yanis?

Yeah, and it is not even real reporting, it’s a few paragraphs citing a politician widely known to be pro-Russian anyway.