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  • China's state subsidies in green technologies significantly higher than those in EU and OECD countries, distorting competition, researchers say

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  • What about cleaning all yards? This 'the West bad, China bad okay' stance is dehumanising and ignorant. [Edit typo.]

  • China's state subsidies in green technologies significantly higher than those in EU and OECD countries, distorting competition, researchers say

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  • I posted this elsewhere already, but it also fits here goven many of the posts in this thread: It is not just about data/privacy concerns (which are underestimated imo, as China pursues an own agenda with collecting your data through Chinese tech) and 'unfair' subsidies, but about gross human rights violations.

    In short, some parts of the cheap Chinese cars are made in concentration camps where people are forced to work under catastrophic conditions.

  • Cyber-attacks: six persons added to EU sanctions list for malicious cyber activities against EU member states and Ukraine

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    Cyber-attacks: six persons added to EU sanctions list for malicious cyber activities against EU member states and Ukraine

    www.consilium.europa.eu /en/press/press-releases/2024/06/24/cyber-attacks-six-persons-added-to-eu-sanctions-list-for-malicious-cyber-activitiescyberattacks-against-eu-member-states-and-ukraine
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    Russian government accused of leaving citizens vulnerable to attacks like Sunday's gun rampages by turning the state's security apparatus on Kremlin critics instead of terrorist threats

    www.reuters.com /world/europe/exiled-chief-rabbi-says-russia-neglects-terror-threat-by-focusing-repression-2024-06-24
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    China's state subsidies in green technologies significantly higher than those in EU and OECD countries, distorting competition, researchers say

    www.intereconomics.eu /contents/year/2024/number/4/article/eu-concerns-about-chinese-subsidies-what-the-evidence-suggests.html
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    China's state subsidies in green technologies significantly higher than those in EU and OECD countries, distorting competition, researchers say

    www.intereconomics.eu /contents/year/2024/number/4/article/eu-concerns-about-chinese-subsidies-what-the-evidence-suggests.html
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    China-backed hackers stepping up attacks on Taiwan, cybersecurity firm says

    www.aljazeera.com /economy/2024/6/24/china-backed-hackers-stepping-up-attacks-on-taiwan-cybersecurity-firm-says
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    Russia: State-owned energy giant Gazprom is expecting difficult decade due to loss of European markets, new report commissioned by its management finds

    www.civilnet.am /en/news/782070/bad-news-is-piling-up-for-gazprom-petrostrategies
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    Finland’s free contraception initiative reduces teen abortions by 66%

    www.optimistdaily.com /2024/06/finlands-free-contraception-initiative-reduces-teen-abortions-by-66
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    Denmark’s radical plan for a plant-based future: The Nordic country is working toward ambitious goals to make its food systems more sustainable — and other nations are following in its path

    reasonstobecheerful.world /denmark-radical-plan-plant-based-future/
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    “We Can Still Contact Technical Support in the West”: Russian weapons are being manufactured on foreign machinery — but why are they still running?

    istories.media /en/stories/2024/06/13/we-can-still-contact-technical-support-in-the-west
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    “We Can Still Contact Technical Support in the West”: Russian weapons are being manufactured on foreign machinery — but why are they still running?

    istories.media /en/stories/2024/06/13/we-can-still-contact-technical-support-in-the-west

  • Italian carmaker fined for selling China-made cars as Italian

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  • This isn't an Italian problem, there are bad people everywhere. In Italy it's not better nor worse, so there's no reason to pidgeonhole a nation.

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    Pro-Kremlin Doppelganger campaign continued its copycatting and reality-distorting activities during the European Parliament elections, report says

    euvsdisinfo.eu /doppelganger-strikes-back-unveiling-fimi-activities-targeting-european-parliament-elections
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    Pro-Kremlin Doppelganger campaign continued its copycatting and reality-distorting activities during the European Parliament elections, report says

    euvsdisinfo.eu /doppelganger-strikes-back-unveiling-fimi-activities-targeting-european-parliament-elections
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    Beaten schoolchildren, military training, and Kremlin propaganda: new report accuses Russia of violating international law through 'Russification' of Ukrainian education system

    www.hrw.org /report/2024/06/20/education-under-occupation/forced-russification-school-system-occupied-ukrainian

  • Italian carmaker fined for selling China-made cars as Italian

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  • It's a bot with a funny human touch 😅

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    'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign?

    www.dailydot.com /debug/chatgpt-bot-x-russian-campaign-meme
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    Italian carmaker fined for selling China-made cars as Italian

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/ckrrxj5mvkgo
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    NATO Member Sweden Says Russia Disrupting Its Satellite Networks

    www.swissinfo.ch /eng/newest-nato-member-sweden-says-russia-disrupting-its-satellite-networks/81257029
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    NATO Member Sweden Says Russia Disrupting Its Satellite Networks

    www.swissinfo.ch /eng/newest-nato-member-sweden-says-russia-disrupting-its-satellite-networks/81257029

  • Leak: EU interior ministers want to exempt themselves from chat control bulk scanning of private messages - EU Reporter

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  • And one detail here is that mainstream media don't report on this. They do as if it didn't happen.

  • 'We have no choice now’: Desperate to circumvent sanctions and do business with China, Russian companies resort to bartering and cryptocurrency pegged to the U.S. dollar

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  • @tal

    This is true. A couple of years ago Tether (along with its sister company Bitfinex, a crypto currency exchange) settled allegations by the New York state in the U.S. by paying a fine (in the double-digit millions), admitting that claims that Tether was backed by fiat at all times was "a lie".

    A major issue with this coin is that it is not subject to regulation by any authority (it's owned by iFinex based in the British Virgin Islands), so they may claim whatever they want.

    I don't know what exactly made them choose Tether, but one reason might indeed be that they don't have much choice (alternative crypto coins are arguably far too volatile to serve as a means of payment for companies with higher bills). Maybe because the company has an office in Hong Kong as far ad I know (at least they had one not long ago). Maybe also because there is a higher volume, maybe because there is also a Tether variant pegged to the Chinese yuan (it hss the same shortcomings as the USDT, but a much lower volume). I don't know.

    But let's not forget that it can be tracked as it's on a blockchain. If they seek to circumvent sanctions and hide their money trail, that's not a good idea.

    In a nutshell: anyone who says that the sanctions don't work should read stories like that and they might change their mind.

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    Beijing urges Britain to stop sanctioning Chinese firms over Russian links

    www.reuters.com /world/beijing-urges-britain-stop-sanctioning-chinese-firms-over-russian-links-2024-06-19

  • Client-Side-Scanning: 'Chat Control is Pure Surveillance State'

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  • @zecg

    What a garbage! This comment doesn't make sense for a lot of reasons, but the most obvious one at first sight is the 'useful idiots' argument. These 'useful idiots' are exactly the far right-wing officials who get repoortedly bribed by China and Russia, and are criticized by their own party members for their incompetence.

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    Client-Side-Scanning: 'Chat Control is Pure Surveillance State'

    netzpolitik.org /2024/client-side-scanning-chat-control-is-pure-surveillance-state/

  • Council to greenlight Chat Contol on June 19th - Patrick Breyer (MEP Pirate Party)

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  • Criminals have already been using alternative ways to exchange data for a lo.g time, especially those who are exchanging images and videos (such as CSAM) as everyday messengers are completely inapt for transmitting such large volumes of data. And these algorithms will yield a lot of false positives too.

    And it is the wrong signal to authoritarian countries as it makes people and companies extremely vulnerable. As Markus Hartmann, Chief Public Prosecutor in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, said not long ago on chat control:

    "From the point of view of information security there is to assume an increased risk [of hacking]. There is no special expertise [demonstrated by politicians] in this area with regard to the signal effect for authoritarian states."

    [Original link in German, translation my own.]

  • Romania denies visas for entire Russian delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Bucharest over "aggression against Ukraine"

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  • Done, thanks.

  • 'We have no choice now’: Desperate to circumvent sanctions and do business with China, Russian companies resort to bartering and cryptocurrency pegged to the U.S. dollar

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  • If you don't want your payments to be tracked, then it really is.

  • EU to put tariffs of up to 38% on Chinese electric vehicles as trade war looms

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  • This is not about EV cars, but it is a perfect real-life example what happens if and when you pursue an economic policy like China's:

    China solar panel manufacturers seek government action to halt freefall in prices

    Chinese solar panel manufacturers said they are seeking immediate government intervention to curb investment and industry collaboration to arrest a plunge in prices of solar cells and modules, as the industry faces overcapacity.

    Financial incentives and a government push have helped China become the solar panel factory of the world, accounting for about 80% of global module capacity. Analysts expect Chinese manufacturers to add up to 600 gigawatts (GW) this year, enough to meet global demand through 2032.

    However, with no end in sight for the plunge in prices, industry officials and analysts said intense competition was threatening to drive smaller producers into bankruptcy. Rapid capacity additions drove down prices of China's finished solar panels by 42% last year.

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  • EU to put tariffs of up to 38% on Chinese electric vehicles as trade war looms

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  • Shenzhen and Hong Kong and many other Chinese cities are really great, I have been there too. The point is that what we see and what you describe is the surface. China is a deeply autocratic regime. It's a shame what the CCP is doing to the Chinese people and their culture.

  • Volvo is moving EV production from China to Belgium as the EU eyes tariffs on Beijing

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  • @makeasnek, it's not only that you are using a lot of words to say nothing, it doesn't address the issue either (because China, among other things, close its own markets, they don't play by the rules they want others to follow, see my other post in this thread).

    [Edit typo.]

  • Volvo is moving EV production from China to Belgium as the EU eyes tariffs on Beijing

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  • @makeasnek, this may be fine if and when all countries apply to the same rules, but this is not the case. China is heavily protecting its market, and they do so much more than the EU or the US. In China, foreign companies can't even run a subsidiary in the country, they need a Chinese parther firm to create a joint venture. Recent Chinese 'security laws' even make simple market research almost impossible as it may be seen as 'espionage' by China, which made many consulting firms close their Chinese offices. And these are just two examples.

  • Volvo is moving EV production from China to Belgium as the EU eyes tariffs on Beijing

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  • Tariffs make us all poorer in the long run. Did we learn nothing in the 20th century?

    A bold statement without any economic or political context. It is Tthngs like that which make the foundation of misinformation and disinformation imo, and, in that case, play into the hands of Chinese disinformation campaigns.

  • Party summaries

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  • Volvo is moving EV production from China to Belgium as the EU eyes tariffs on Beijing

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  • Good. But European firms must also stop putting European intellectual property and national security at risk by outsourcing the making of sensitive technology to China or other countries, and Chinese and other foreign companies shouldn't be allowed to take over European companies (the latter being a corresponding rule in China for foreign companies btw).

  • In the New Cold War, Europe’s Approach to China Is Already Outdated, Researchers Say

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