@humanspiral@lemmy.ca

Dude, just go and touch some grass.

@freagle@lemmygrad.ml

@freagle

Yeah, I forgot that it’s only colonialism if the West does it (/s, just to be safe).

The next weird Trump move. It’s telling how similar autocrats act across the globe. China has been playing the same ‘name games’ with its neighbours and in the wider Indo-Pacific Region for decades, and Xi Jinping has been increasing such activities in recent years.

A recent example: China has just officially mapped Russian Far East sites with Chinese names. It’s another sign that Beijing isn’t a reliable partner - not even for a like- minded dictatorship.

They are reliable.

No, they aren’t. China even imposed tariffs on Canadian pea starch in back in June (so you statement is wrong in this), and this is by far not the worst. The Chinese government’s coercive tactics are well-known across the globe, and so are its human rights violations.

This is the same cheap propaganda that is so widespread here. China is a dictatorship where people can’t openly say their opinion about democracy nor anything else, at least not if the opinion differs from the Communist Party’s narrative. And Beijing’s human rights violations have been evident for decades.

Edit:

I remembered a study I read some time ago and could now find it. It’s from 2024, and it essentially says that when Chinese citizens are surveyed anonymously, support for party and government plummets:

Most public opinion research in China uses direct questions to measure support for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and government policies. These direct question surveys routinely find that over 90 per cent of Chinese citizens support the government. From this, scholars conclude that the CCP enjoys genuine legitimacy. In this paper, we present results from two survey experiments in contemporary China that make clear that citizens conceal their opposition to the CCP for fear of repression. When respondents are asked directly, we find, like other scholars, approval ratings for the CCP that exceed 90 per cent. When respondents are asked in the form of list experiments, which confer a greater sense of anonymity, CCP support hovers between 50 per cent and 70 per cent. This represents an upper bound, however, since list experiments may not fully mitigate incentives for preference falsification. The list experiments also suggest that fear of government repression discourages some 40 per cent of Chinese citizens from participating in anti-regime protests. Most broadly, this paper suggests that scholars should stop using direct question surveys to measure political opinions in China.

This is just one among many studies that show that ‘perception’ of democracy isn’t that simple to illustrate just by something like a diagram as propagandists make it seem. It should be clear that directly asking citizens who live under a dictatorial regime what they think about their government will provide no useful answers in my opinion.

Canada must seek closer ties with like-minded democracies (what it does already). The ‘Chinese path’ is - at best - a short-term convenience, but in the long run a lost game for Canadians and the free world in general. Beijing and other dictatorial regimes aren’t reliable partners, no matter what happens in the U.S.

I don’t think it’s written by AI, and it makes valid points in my opinion.

As an addition, here are two sources regarding the Chinese government’s crimes against humanity in the Xinjiang region.

A Committee Report to the Canadian Parliament says about the Chinese government:

In particular, the Subcommittee was informed that the PRC [People’s Republic of China] government:

• continues to detain Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in what witnesses referred to as concentration camps, where women and girls are regularly subjected to sexual abuse and other forms of gender‑based violence;
• separates children from their families and places them in state run schools or orphanages;
• forces Uyghurs to work in various types of factories in Xinjiang and other regions of China, as part of the PRC government’s “poverty reduction” initiative;
• uses invasive surveillance measures to repress Uyghurs living in Xinjiang and abroad; and
• imposes barbaric methods to reduce Uyghur birth rates in Xinjiang, including the forced use of intrauterine contraceptive devices as well as forced and coerced sterilizations and abortions.

Justine Nolan, Professor of Law and Justice and Director of the Australian Human Rights Institute, writes that a UN report on Xinjiang abuses leaves no room for plausible deniability,

The Chinese regime’s treatment of Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim groups in the province of Xinjiang may constitute crimes against humanity …

It describes as “credible” allegations of torture, including rape and sexual violence, discrimination, mass detention, forced labour and widespread surveillance.

Multiple reports over the past five years have documented human rights abuses in the far-western province. These include the arbitrary detention of at least 800,000 people, and possibly millions …

It is no longer possible for anyone – including the many companies that continue to source products from Xinjiang – to claim plausible deniability …

You find much more on the web.

You are a hypocritical Chinese propagandist (as can also be seen from you post history). That’s really a shame and a waste of time.

Answer my question.

The root cause of China’s actions in the Uighur autonomous region of China was that these ISS terrorists were indiscriminately bombing public places

This is Chinese propaganda slop.

There is ample evidence for grave human rights violations and crimes against humanity committed by the Chinese Communist Party.

There’s no difference between Benjamin Netanyahu’s genocidal policy against Palestinians and Xi Jinping’s genocidal policy against Uyghurs, Tibetans, and other minorities.

Do you agree?

Sure, they also have the wrong government. There’s no difference between Benjamin Netanyahu’s genocidal policy against Palestinians and Xi Jinping’s genocidal policy against Uyghurs, Tibetans, and other minorities.

Do you agree?

Don’t know, but if so, it’s just another reason why cheap Chinese EVs aren’t worth the price.

Russian-linked actors stoking division in Alberta separation debate, research says

The ongoing study has found the discussion about Alberta separation has gone far beyond Canadian borders – mainly to Russian and American ‘content farms’ and influencers.

“It’s very clear that there is foreign interference,” said Brian McQuinn, who is the co-director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Data, and Conflict at the University of Regina and the CEO of Cipher AI …

Through July and August, researchers found hundreds of websites, headlines, social media content and more generated that “repeated misleading framing.”

“Their goal is to have us start to turn on each other, is to no longer see someone who disagrees with you as someone who has a different opinion, who still cares about the country, but is actually an enemy of the country,” McQuinn said …

McQuinn says Russian-based attempts to influence the debate have been more covert through misleading headlines, articles and false narratives. Russian-linked participants made up the vast majority of influence attempts, the data shows.

American-based influences have been more overt, through influencers or politicians making comments publicly …

Canada’s economy gains 75,000 new jobs, driving down unemployment rate

The job gains covered a broad swath of industries, according to data from Statistics Canada published on Friday. Wholesale and retail trade recorded the largest employment increase in July, followed by the finance, insurance, real estate, rental and leasing industry. Employment also rose in the professional, scientific and technical services sector, as well as construction.

Total employment is up by 0.9 per cent or 181,000 jobs since April. This increase was driven by a rise in full-time work, which rose by 1.1 per cent or 193,000 positions. The unemployment rate has also fallen by 0.5 percentage points since April.

On a year-over-year basis, Canada’s unemployment rate was down 0.5 percentage points in July.

The article is even citing a very prominent example. Your remarks are just a distraction as always from this account.

Don’t know why someone brings up the US whenever China is verifiably the first perpetrator, while no one engages in the same whataboutism and bringing up China when the US is criticized.

In Europe they have already begun to do it, so let’s hope Canada follows soon.

@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world

The idea that your industry will be “killed” because it integrates with a firm outside your jurisdiction is demonstrably false.

Your comment is misleading and a distraction. It depends with whom you integrate.

It has been demonstrated that China isn’t a reliable partner as, amongst others, technology gets stolen. The article is very clear about it.

Mark Carney himself called out China as Canada’s 'biggest security threat." He was so right …

Chinese organizations and companies involved in these malign activities by the government in Beijing may not be such household names (in Canada) as Palantir and others, but they are nevertheless as dangerous.

Chinese espionage and political interference such as by the United Front Work Department, political and economic coercion, are well-known also in Canada, and they have long history in the country.