- 3.25K Posts
- 977 Comments
4·2 天前Sponsored by Russia, China, and the USA.
The OG Nazis in the 1930s would not exist without the USA.
This is simply wrong as others have already said.
And although we can learn a lot from history, today’s far-right (and far-left) in Germany and Europe have been supported by China and Russia rather. The MAGAs in the US only joined the party recently.
Marriage of Convenience: How European Far-Right and Far-Left Discovered China
European far-right and far-left political parties, though ideologically opposed, are finding common ground in their alignments with China, echoing Beijing’s narratives and raising concerns about foreign influence and manipulation.
Yes, that’s what I thought, too.
You may know that, but just for others who may not be too much into this:
Egypt is not moving away from the USD. It is just further diversifying its trade and dependencies. It is also noteworthy that trade between Egypt and China moves mostly in one direction: from Egypt to China. Between 2021 and 2025, Egypt’s imports from China increased from USD 14 billion to almost USD 19 billion, while Egypt’s exports to China decreased from USD 1.5 billion to lesss than USD 0.5 billion.
While almost 20 percent of Egypt’s imports come from China, less than 1 percent of Egypt’s export go to China. It’s a good business for Chinese companies, not necessarily for Egyptians as they face a huge and growing trade deficit. (Egypt largest trading partner is the EU btw.)
And the local swap agreement between the countries must be seen under China’s somewhat special currency policy: The Chinese Yuan used within China (known as the CNY or onshore Yuan) is different from the Yuan used outside of China (the CNH or offshore Yuan). There is no free float for the offshore Yuan either as the Chinese Central Bank allows trade within a narrow range that is said to be of 2% above or below the mid-rate for the day. If the exchange rate moves outside these limits, the central bank steps in. However, it can change its policy at any time.
By this currency policy, the Chinese Communist Party has been able to determine an exchange rate regime that works in the interests of the Chinese leadership (not necessarily the Chinese people). It could depreciate its currency at any time as it has done in 2019, when the property crisis in China started, and this crisis is not yet over as we know.
1·4 天前While data on tech tours is scarce, broader industrial tourism is booming. China’s industrial tourism sector pulled in $17.8 billion last year, according to state media, and is projected to blow past 300 billion yuan ($44.6 billion) by 2029.
Shanghai-based tech tour agency GloPen says inquiries jumped 50% in 2026 from mostly European and Singaporean clients, and it now runs over 100 single-day company tours every month.
This is another hype to tell the so-called “China story” with an article that falls short of any in-depth content.
But the podcaster will help to spread the word.
In other articles, one author wrote that “I went to China to see a different AI future. It looked familiar”,
My trip to China revealed an AI race that looks less like a clash of competing visions, and more like two countries racing toward a similar future.
1·4 天前While data on tech tours is scarce, broader industrial tourism is booming. China’s industrial tourism sector pulled in $17.8 billion last year, according to state media, and is projected to blow past 300 billion yuan ($44.6 billion) by 2029.
Shanghai-based tech tour agency GloPen says inquiries jumped 50% in 2026 from mostly European and Singaporean clients, and it now runs over 100 single-day company tours every month.
This is another hype to tell the so-called “China story” with an article that falls short of any in-depth content.
But the podcaster will help to spread the word.
In other articles, one author wrote that “I went to China to see a different AI future. It looked familiar”,
My trip to China revealed an AI race that looks less like a clash of competing visions, and more like two countries racing toward a similar future.
While data on tech tours is scarce, broader industrial tourism is booming. China’s industrial tourism sector pulled in $17.8 billion last year, according to state media, and is projected to blow past 300 billion yuan ($44.6 billion) by 2029.
Shanghai-based tech tour agency GloPen says inquiries jumped 50% in 2026 from mostly European and Singaporean clients, and it now runs over 100 single-day company tours every month.
This is another hype to tell the so-called “China story” with an article that falls short of any in-depth content.
But the podcaster will help to spread the word.
In other articles, one author wrote that “I went to China to see a different AI future. It looked familiar”,
My trip to China revealed an AI race that looks less like a clash of competing visions, and more like two countries racing toward a similar future.
62·10 天前Can we be sure that you aren’t a pro-China, pro-Russia propaganda bot who says that tankies are ‘well-informed’ and who says the tankies’ cheering on Russia’s violent actions against Ukraine is just because they have ‘different values’ as one can see from your post history?
Generally they [China] have the best AI regulations worldwide.
This is pure propaganda by the Chinese Communist Party. Workers’ rights in China are among the weakest globally, and we see this at the moment in Chinese labour market.
The Chinese ruling you are referring to in you comment doesn’t forbid companies from using AI to automate certain roles held by humans, as stated by experts such as Moshe Lander, an economics professor at Canadian Concordia University,
Workers, the ruling says, “should also understand the strategic development needs of enterprises, continuously update and improve their professional skills through continuous learning, proactively adapt to the changes in artificial intelligence technology, promote the efficient application of AI technology in production practices, and foster a win-win situation of personal career growth and efficient enterprise development.”
Lander said the ruling, which was issued ahead of China’s Labour Day on May 1, was likely a messaging and “self-preservation” exercise for the ruling Chinese Communist Party given the potential widespread impact of AI-led labour disruptions.
12·13 天前Thanks. I provided an archived link. Doesn’t it work? (Here all seems fine.)
I watched this interview, and the most important detail in my opinion in this interview was he supports use of force on Taiwan, but he refuses to say why exactly. His arguments remain weak. Maybe the reason is money?
China has been Malaysia’s best trade deficit partner (and the deficits has quadrupled over the last ten years). As a ‘partner’ of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, Malaysia also seeks investments.
China’s special administrative region, Hong Kong, is Malaysia’s second largest foreign direct investment contributor (second only to Singapore, according to 2023 data). One prominent example was the investment by Chinese-owned INV New Material Technology in a lithium-ion battery plant in Penang.
Malaysia’s Port Klang plays also a growing role in shifting global supply chains.The Port Klang Free Zone has received a surge of inquiries from everywhere, but especially from China, not in the least as the country’s mercantilist policy seeks relief from higher US tariffs.
I watched this interview, and the most important detail in my opinion in this interview was he supports use of force on Taiwan, but he refuses to say why exactly. His arguments remain weak. Maybe the reason is money?
China has been Malaysia’s best trade deficit partner (and the deficits has quadrupled over the last ten years). As a ‘partner’ of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, Malaysia also seeks investments.
China’s special administrative region, Hong Kong, is Malaysia’s second largest foreign direct investment contributor (second only to Singapore, according to 2023 data). One prominent example was the investment by Chinese-owned INV New Material Technology in a lithium-ion battery plant in Penang.
Malaysia’s Port Klang plays also a growing role in shifting global supply chains.The Port Klang Free Zone has received a surge of inquiries from everywhere, but especially from China, not in the least as the country’s mercantilist policy seeks relief from higher US tariffs.
I watched this interview, and the most important detail in my opinion in this interview was he supports use of force on Taiwan, but he refuses to say why exactly. His arguments remain weak. Maybe the reason is money?
China has been Malaysia’s best trade deficit partner (and the deficits has quadrupled over the last ten years). As a ‘partner’ of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, Malaysia also seeks investments.
China’s special administrative region, Hong Kong, is Malaysia’s second largest foreign direct investment contributor (second only to Singapore, according to 2023 data). One prominent example was the investment by Chinese-owned INV New Material Technology in a lithium-ion battery plant in Penang.
Malaysia’s Port Klang plays also a growing role in shifting global supply chains.The Port Klang Free Zone has received a surge of inquiries from everywhere, but especially from China, not in the least as the country’s mercantilist policy seeks relief from higher US tariffs.
China is spending billions on many forms of disinformation campaigns in all countries. OpenAI recently identified two clusters of disinformation accounts, as one report says,
- The accounts are likely from a private Chinese company, that used ChatGPT to generate fake pro-American commentary opposing data centers.
- The ‘Data Center Bandwagon’ group operated from late 2025 to early 2026, posing on X as Americans via VPNs while prompting ChatGPT in Simplified Chinese.
- OpenAI rated the campaigns Category One on its Breakout Scale, meaning they stayed on one platform and generated virtually no authentic engagement.
As much as I dislike OpenAI and its management’s attitudes, it’s also clear that China is interfering also here. It’s common practice for Chinese disinformation campaigners to exploit existing issues to sow division among Western societies for its own gains.
It’s a misleading headline.
The article says that “the revisions … are seen as mildly positive for the housing market”, and given the experience with Chinese policies in its domestic market in recent years even this may seem exaggerated.
The Chinese government has been announcing many measures over the last couple of years to revive consumptoin, but most of them remained lip services. And even where concrete measures were taken, the effects were very limited.
I would do it, but I am banned, too :-)
You’re citing sources under the direct censorship regime of the Chinese Communist Party. This is useless.
Are you unfamiliar with western politics? The working class has absolutely no representation … but the Chinese people absolutely have a voice.
What holds you and the majority of ‘tankies’ back then? Why aren’t they emigrating to China or Russia? I heard the latter they are desperately looking for new citizens of late.
Edit: Btw, China’s Xi Jinping has frequently confirmed that he rejects social welfare as it would make people ‘lazy’. Both wealth and income inequality have been sharply rising in China over the last decade and have now reached U.S. levels.
What we call a social safety net including healthcare, education, elderly care comes mainly from the wider family in China and sometimes from local villages in the rural areas. The Chinese Communist Party’s widely proclaimed “socialism with Chinese characteristics” exists at best on paper, as the state never developed a system for social welfare and workers’s rights that comes even remotely to the high standards in many Western democracies.
China’s hukou system of residency compounds many social problems, stopping many rural migrants from obtaining urban residency and thus preventing them from accessing higher quality urban social services (Hukou is sort of a registration, but also classification system, employed to assign urban or specific rural residency status and, with it, an individual’s eligibility to obtain services).
The workers in China are represented by the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU). It is the only trade union that is allowed in China - and it is led by Chinese Communist Party. China’s ‘996 working culture’ is legendary, and something that is prohibited by Western labour laws.
Please stop citing sources that are explicitly pro-China and pro-Russian, and, therefore, anti-democratic.
Greyzone is well-known to hire ex-'editors from Russia’s propaganda outlets RT and Sputnik, among them are Mohamed Elmaazi, Dan Cohen, Rania Khalek, Kit Klarenberg, Jeremy Loffredo, Wyatt Reed, Anya Parampil, Alex Rubinstein (you’ll find a lot of articles by them on the website).
Greyzone has also frequently echoing Chinese Communist Party propaganda, the outlet is even often cited by Chinese officials. As one article by ProPublica wrote in 2020,
When Hua Chunying, a spokeswoman for China’s Foreign Ministry, tweeted that reports of mass detention camps for China’s Uighur Muslim minority were the “LIE of the CENTURY,” she cited an article in the Grayzone, a website founded by Max Blumenthal, a frequent contributor to RT and the Russian-controlled Sputnik news agency. Similarly, Chinese government spokesperson Zhao Lijian’s tweet that the coronavirus originated in the U.S. cited a website previously found by NATO to spread Russian propaganda.
The independent media outlet Coda Story published an article on how Max Blumenthal, the founder of Grayzone, downplayed Beijing’s actions in Xinjiang on international TV. In Enter the Grayzone: fringe leftists deny the scale of China’s Uyghur oppression, it states,
On July 25 [2020], Max Blumenthal, the founder and editor of the far-left news site The Grayzone, went on Going Underground, a current affairs show broadcast by the Russian state-controlled TV channel RT. On air, he questioned the scale of the detention of Uyghurs in camps in China’s northwestern Xinjiang province …
Blumenthal’s statements met with outrage online and many social media users accused him of ignoring one of the largest-scale human rights violations of the 21st century …
There is much more across the web. Your sources are outright rubbish.
Please stop citing sources that are explicitly pro-China and pro-Russian, and, therefore, anti-democratic.
Greyzone is well-known to hire ex-'editors from Russia’s propaganda outlets RT and Sputnik, among them are Mohamed Elmaazi, Dan Cohen, Rania Khalek, Kit Klarenberg, Jeremy Loffredo, Wyatt Reed, Anya Parampil, Alex Rubinstein (you’ll find a lot of articles by them on the website).
Greyzone has also frequently echoing Chinese Communist Party propaganda, the outlet is even often cited by Chinese officials. As one article by ProPublica wrote in 2020,
When Hua Chunying, a spokeswoman for China’s Foreign Ministry, tweeted that reports of mass detention camps for China’s Uighur Muslim minority were the “LIE of the CENTURY,” she cited an article in the Grayzone, a website founded by Max Blumenthal, a frequent contributor to RT and the Russian-controlled Sputnik news agency. Similarly, Chinese government spokesperson Zhao Lijian’s tweet that the coronavirus originated in the U.S. cited a website previously found by NATO to spread Russian propaganda.
The independent media outlet Coda Story published an article on how Max Blumenthal, the founder of Grayzone, downplayed Beijing’s actions in Xinjiang on international TV. In Enter the Grayzone: fringe leftists deny the scale of China’s Uyghur oppression, it states,
On July 25 [2020], Max Blumenthal, the founder and editor of the far-left news site The Grayzone, went on Going Underground, a current affairs show broadcast by the Russian state-controlled TV channel RT. On air, he questioned the scale of the detention of Uyghurs in camps in China’s northwestern Xinjiang province …
Blumenthal’s statements met with outrage online and many social media users accused him of ignoring one of the largest-scale human rights violations of the 21st century …
There is much more across the web. Your sources are outright rubbish.
A more elaborated article is by the EU Observer, it says,
It seems Brazil is failing here, not the EU.