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1·9 hours agoThis guy is a hypocrite imo. After a series of corruption scandals that are still ongoing and three recent deadly train crashes in his country, he just fights for his political survival. He also contracted China’s Huawei for the Spanish judicial wiretap system, contrary to the EU policy. I don’t buy into this person’s morality.
11·12 hours agoWhy not CANZUKEU ;-)
11·17 hours agoThat’s a big issue in South Africa at the moment. A letter by a South African reader to one of the media outlets there summaries it quiet good:
TL;DR: Cheap Chinese goods like EVs or consumer products from Temu are floodin South African markets at the cost of domestic manufacturing and the loss of local jobs, but the government says this should be addressed by the industries concerned, not the government.
It is noteworthy that South Africa has been trading with China at a huge deficit. While bilateral trade has increased substantially from 2022 to 2024, Chinese imports into South Africa were around 22b billion US dollars annually while South African exports to China made up just around 12 billion US dollars annually (according to the Comtrade database).
South Africa’s trade deficit with China has also increased in the long term.
2·17 hours agoThat’s a big issue in South Africa at the moment. A letter by a South African reader to one of the media outlets there summaries it quiet good:
TL;DR: Cheap Chinese goods like EVs or consumer products from Temu are floodin South African markets at the cost of domestic manufacturing and the loss of local jobs, but the government says this should be addressed by the industries concerned, not the government.
It is noteworthy that South Africa has been trading with China at a huge deficit. While bilateral trade has increased substantially from 2022 to 2024, Chinese imports into South Africa were around 22b billion US dollars annually while South African exports to China made up just around 12 billion US dollars annually (according to the Comtrade database).
South Africa’s trade deficit with China has also increased in the long term.
1·18 hours agoYou may also consider Go European where you can find European alternative for a wide range products.
Celebrating violence against civilians, including children, is - at best - the result of brainwashing, and it is mentally derailed at worst. You can have a different opinion, like different things, agree where others disagree. Even whataboutism, as bad as it is, remains on a higher human level. But literally cheering the suffering of innocent people is, in my opinion, unreconcilable with human civilization in the 21st century.
As an addition, we must again regognize that tankies and other extremists literally celebrate these actions by Russia as one study says:
… The presence of left-wing extremism on the Lemmygrad. ml instance of the decentralized social media platform Lemmy … reveal a substantial increase in user activity and toxicity levels following the migration of these subreddits to Lemmygrad. ml. …
[Users] frequently share posts that support authoritarian regimes, as seen in their support for China, North Korea, and Russia. Moreover, their support can extend beyond backing these authoritarian regimes, even cheering on their violent actions, as evidenced by their posts on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Everyone who thinks the study is incorrect for whatever reason is free to go to the instances and read their posts and comments there. They are testimony of a deeply repugnant mindset.
As an addition, we must again regognize that tankies and other extremists literally celebrate these actions by Russia as one study says:
… The presence of left-wing extremism on the Lemmygrad. ml instance of the decentralized social media platform Lemmy … reveal a substantial increase in user activity and toxicity levels following the migration of these subreddits to Lemmygrad. ml. …
[Users] frequently share posts that support authoritarian regimes, as seen in their support for China, North Korea, and Russia. Moreover, their support can extend beyond backing these authoritarian regimes, even cheering on their violent actions, as evidenced by their posts on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Everyone who thinks the study is incorrect for whatever reason is free to go to the instances and read their posts and comments there. They are testimony of a deeply repugnant mindset.
I re-post my deleted comment again with a source link as it was not ‘bad faith.’
Tankies are literally celebrating Russia’s violence against Ukrainians, as one study says:
… The presence of left-wing extremism on the Lemmygrad. ml instance of the decentralized social media platform Lemmy … reveal a substantial increase in user activity and toxicity levels following the migration of these subreddits to Lemmygrad. ml. …
[Users] frequently share posts that support authoritarian regimes, as seen in their support for China, North Korea, and Russia. Moreover, their support can extend beyond backing these authoritarian regimes, even cheering on their violent actions, as evidenced by their posts on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Everyone is free to go to the instances and read their posts and comments. They are celebrating violent actions.
‘Normie’ or not, you may consider buying your next computer with Libreboot/Coreboot, for example, at https://minifree.org/ (Leah Rowe’s company, the person who also wrote the linked article) or at https://novacustom.com/.
The statements come from an Iranian senior official. He said forces were given
“full authority and a blank check to attack, with the aim of creating maximum fear to deter the resurgence of protests.”
And the senior official speaking at the meeting was presenting
assessments by security bodies that sharply contradict the government’s official figures on the killings.
25·5 days agoThe People Dispatch is a radical political media outlet promoting extremist views, and it frequently conveys anti-democratic narratives promoted by China, Russia, and other dictatorships.
It has a close relationship to the Tricontinental Information Center (TIC) founded in 1967 after a worldwide Soviet/Communist conference in Cuba whose executive director is a fellow at Renmin University of China.
The People Dispatch is a radical political media outlet promoting extremist views, and it frequently conveys anti-democratic narratives promoted by China, Russia, and other dictatorships.
It has a close relationship to the Tricontinental Information Center (TIC) founded in 1967 after a worldwide Soviet/Communist conference in Cuba whose executive director is a fellow at Renmin University of China.
41·5 days agoAnd the tankies in their .ml communities are cheering this violence against Ukrainians
It’s not the new order. You can make some sort of ‘tit-for-tat’ deals with China, but any strategic partnership with the CCP won’t benefit Canada nor any of China’s potential partners. Beijing will break any agreement as soon as it deems it appropriate (this is, for example, if you call for the release of foreign prisoners illegally detained in China, or if you support Taiwan’s independence, things like that). In the last decade, the CCP has even been increasing its games of political and economic coercion.
Canada needs to engage more with democratic states that share the same values. China’s autocratic system of repression - at home and abroad - as well as its economic policy based on mercantilism (China depends on ever expanding shares in foreign markets to sell its overcapacity) makes the country inherently unreliable.
From that point of view, Mr. Carney’s mistake was not necessarily his trip to Beijing, but rather the fact that he didn’t pass by before in Tokyo and Seoul, and in Canberra and Wellington.
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Why? GNU Taler and Wero can co-exist imo, they are both excellent projects. GNU Taler released its first version in Switzerland last year as you may know. I do hope they will be thriving both, and possibly more will come.
12·7 days agoI am no fan of the Chinese political system
LOL.
China is the only country taking the climate crisis seriously
This is pure propaganda. China is among the worst polluters on the globe. In addition, unlike many countries mostly from Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean, it has refused to phase-out fossil fuels in the last COP30.
The euro is a great advantage for all countries that take part, including Greece. It was Greece’s membership in Eurozone that made the support easier for all sides.
There have been problems back then and many of them may still persist, but they have nothing to do with the currency. Nor has it to do with the “right wingers” that saw “a moral crusade against lazy Mediterraneans” that forced Greece “into an aggressive internal devaluation.” This is meaningless propaganda rant.