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  • China threatens Mexico with trade reprisals over 50% import duties

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  • It is about as reliable as the NYT or CNN.

    I don't trust the NYT much less than I did in the meantime, still a bit more CNN, but it's perfectly alright to verify content regardless of the source. Reuters, AP, and a lot of Western media have 'business agreements" with Chinese state-media (which, essentially, means they have agreements with the Chinese Communist Party). There is a brief article, The Politics of Pure Business, published by the China Media Project some time ago if you are interested.

    Influence operation in the West by Chinese media goes far beyond this. A great project about this is Lingua Sinica, a tool enabling you to research possible Chinese influence in any country's media. It's an exceptional source. So the influence can come from all sides, not just the U.S. or any Western government.

    What makes Chinese state-media outlets special is they are inherently propaganda tools. They publish everything what the Party wants, and nothing what the Party doesn't want. This is not comparable to any Western media, no matter whether the Western outlets are publicly or privately funded. I don't say that we in the West have a perfect media, but the structure in China is fundamentally different.

    You can see this now in the U.S. very clearly, for example. Despite the fact that the Florida man is trying to turn his country into a dictatorship close to the one in China, you can read a lot of articles and reports in the U.S. that are critical of Donald Trump. But you can't find even a single critical article about Xi Jinping in Chinese media.

  • China threatens Mexico with trade reprisals over 50% import duties

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  • Can we please stop using the SCMP?

  • Spain’s Sánchez attacks other EU leaders for exploiting energy prices to gut climate policies

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  • Sanchez is just fighting for this political survival as corruption scandals involving close political allies and family members bite (his Socialist party were facing heavy losses in recent regional elections). I don't buy into this person's morality, especially as he contracted Spain's judicial wiretap system to China's Huawei. This is just another attempt of distraction.

  • Canada: Critics urge Ottawa to help Inuit resist Chinese surveillance, economic dependence

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  • In January 2018, the Chinese government published a White Paper, stating,

    Geographically, China is a “Near-Arctic State” ...

    There is ample evidence that China has deep interest in the Arctic that goes far beyond resource exploitation and shipping routes (so-called "Polar Silk Road"). Research shows that China is also seeking to advance its military presence and capabilities to the Arctic.

    In December 2024, for example, a video circulated on Chinese social media that showed how China should conquer parts of Siberia up to lake Baikal.

    So this is a serious security issue for Canada and the democratic world, and there is nothing ridiculous here.

    @GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca

  • China’s new ‘cookie-cutter’ law to shape citizens in the Party’s image - [Opinion]

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  • Chinese physicists create elusive 'hexagonal diamond' that's harder than natural diamond

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  • As someone already said, this has been done in 1967 already.

    It's just another piece in OP's endless pro-China and pro-Russia propaganda stream, apparently spread through various alt accounts. Sadly, this includes even cross-posts from ml comms.

  • China, Russia Driving Autocratic Shift Around World, Report Says

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  • I don’t know, I haven’t read it.

    But.

    This.

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    Thiel, the pro-Trump tycoon in Rome: technology against the Antichrist

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  • The linked reports name a range of thinkers from whom Peter will draw inspiration, including René Girard, Francis Bacon, Jonathan Swift, Carl Schmitt, and John Henry Newman. This may be true, but Thiel's allegedly most important and very early inspiration comes from Ayn Rand, a 20th century Russian immigrant to the US, whose philospophy strongly resonates with with many other tech moguls in Silicon Valley.

    Interestingly and a bit contrary to Thiel's speeches, Rand rejected faith and religion at all, as well as state interventionism. She supported a sort of laissez-faire system based individual rights, notably private property rights. Today, Rand is often associated with the libertarian movement in the U.S.

  • Thiel, the pro-Trump tycoon in Rome: technology against the Antichrist

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  • The linked reports name a range of thinkers from whom Peter will draw inspiration, including René Girard, Francis Bacon, Jonathan Swift, Carl Schmitt, and John Henry Newman. This may be true, but Thiel's allegedly most important and very early inspiration comes from Ayn Rand, a 20th century Russian immigrant to the US, whose philospophy strongly resonates with with many other tech moguls in Silicon Valley.

    Interestingly and a bit contrary to Thiel's speeches, Rand rejected faith and religion at all, as well as state interventionism. She supported a sort of laissez-faire system based individual rights, notably private property rights. Today, Rand is often associated with the libertarian movement in the U.S.

  • Fears for press freedom as billionaire takes control of East Africa's largest media house

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  • Unfortunately, fears for press freedom in all parts of Africa have been increasingly under threat in recent years, but it doesn't come primarily from domestic players or 'billionaire media'.

    For example, the African Center for Strategic Studies is mapping a surge of disinformation in Africa, arguing that Russia and China are the biggest sources of misinformation and disinformation.

    Nearly 60 percent of disinformation campaigns on the continent are foreign state-sponsored—with Russia, China, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, and Qatar as the primary sponsor.

    In another report, China’s Narrative Warfare in Africa: Influence and Mechanisms, scholars say,

    Multilateral exchanges enable the CCP to position itself as a “central node” within China’s African networks, encouraging a “group-think” mentality among the participating political elites. The CCP also trains over 2,000 African political cadres and several hundred local government officials annually, aiming to familiarize local political elites with China’s approach to economic development and political governance.

    Additionally, the CCP funds and constructs government and party buildings, hospitals, and schools. A notable example is the $40 million construction of the Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Leadership School in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Completed in February 2022, the school serves as a hub for disseminating China’s governance model and political ideology among African elites.

    In a Q&A, security analyst Beverly Ochieng, breaks down the growing presence of China and Russia in the region and their influence on media in the continent: "China and Russia are increasing their footprint”: How & why authoritarian states seek to exert influence through the media in Africa

    So we shouldn't downplay media concentration in Africa, but the problem is much bigger. The biggest problem comes from elsewhere.

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  • China passes controversial 'ethnic unity' law

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  • China approves 'ethnic unity' law requiring minorities to learn Mandarin

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  • Hungary's Orbán orders authorities to hold some $82 million in seized Ukrainian cash and gold

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  • Let's hope for April 12.

  • China: Tibetan monk sentenced to six years in prison for teaching Tibetan language

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  • Watch the documentary. The state observes any move you make.

  • China: Tibetan monk sentenced to six years in prison for teaching Tibetan language

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  • Dude, each single app she has on her phone is from a private company. The state doesn't even have an app, and it doesn't need one.

    To paraphrase what the documentary says: The private companies are creating the apps, but the Chinese party-state makes the recipes. And the state has access to every single piece of information. The state decides what happens with the data, and what 'features' are added. The party gets what it wants.

    That's what the documentary explains explicitly.

    It's an Orwellian nightmare.

  • China: Tibetan monk sentenced to six years in prison for teaching Tibetan language

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  • Watch the documentary. Each individual gets a score, and this score changes depending on your behaviour and the everyday decision you make - what you drink you buy, what food you eat. Whatever the party deems as desired or undesired behaviour, the score is increased or decreased.

  • China: Tibetan monk sentenced to six years in prison for teaching Tibetan language

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  • It depends how people are asked imo. Most such surveys are done on Chinese social media or in similar surveys where individual answers can be tracked. According to polls done in China, the vast majority of citizens also agree that China is a good democracy and that they trust their government.

    But what else would people say? Openly disagreeing with the government can put you in big trouble in China. It's basically a choice between being supportive of what the government does or risking to simply disappear.

  • China: Tibetan monk sentenced to six years in prison for teaching Tibetan language

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  • the social credit score as it is imagined by westerners with AIs tracking your every move to make a number go up or down that determines your standing in society is fiction.

    No, it isn't fiction. It is real.

    Every Chinese citizen gets a score, to which points are added or deducted depending on individual everyday actions.

    The system rewards citizens based on their accumulated "score," which basically reflects their alignment with state-approved values. A high score grants valuable incentives and preferential access to public services. For example, citizens with good credit may be exempt from paying deposits when using public hospitals or libraries, receive discounts on public transportation, and benefit from streamlined processes for certain international visas. Conversely, acts like running a red light or jaywalking can result in public shaming and a loss of points.

    Based on this social credit system, the Chinese population is divided into 4 classes of citizens, depending on your score.

    There is a documentary by a French journalist and his (Chinese) wife who were living in China's capital Beijing. The documentary has been made in 2023, but there is an edited version from 2025 (I watched the film back in 2023 and also the 2025 version; as far as I remember, the 2025 edits reflect the role of AI in the system).

    Here is a YT link: Life Under China’s Social Credit System: A Dystopian Reality?

    Here an alternative Invidious link: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=p19nYrjZ1dQ

    The documentary lasts 52 minutes.

    @bazo@sh.itjust.works

    @Archangel1313@lemmy.ca

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  • China does not just dominate rare earths – it has quietly become indispensable in copper refining too

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  • The stories on this site are exclusively AI generated. It's another low-quality piece by @cm0002 who spreads low-quality articles through several alt accounts.

    There are many good article on this subject, I posted one just yesterday in this community: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/52030169