The Iran war may ‘fueling China’s clean energy surge’ (don’t know what the Trump-Xi talks have to do with it), but China has not displaced coal, the most polluting fossil fuel.

China consumes over 50% of global coal supply, supposedly because coal is the only fossil fuel it doesn’t have to import and it wants to maintain energy self-sufficiency. In January and February 2026 alone, China added 20 gigawatts of coal-fired power capacity.

This partly explains why China is not on track to meet its 2060 carbon neutrality goal, according to climate think tank, Carbon Action Tracker. And it will not get better, according to the Chinese Communist Party’s recently released 15th five-year plan: compared to the 14th five-year plan, China’s goals for non-fossil energy additions would see China’s annual green energy additions fall by more than half in the next five years, while at the same time, fossil fuel energy consumption would increase by 8-10%,

This is about to reverse the slow-down in fossil fuel energy consumption during the 14th five-year plan period.

But OP is spreading their propaganda.

Tesla operates a plant in Shanghai for some time.

Elon Musk pledges Tesla to China’s ‘core socialist values’

No, not Carney. Carney and Xi Jinping. No one needs a car made by slave labour.

Elon Musk pledges Tesla to China’s ‘core socialist values’ to avert EV price war (July 2023)

China’s government has solicited a truce among its top EV manufacturers, with Elon Musk’s Tesla being the only foreign firm to sign the joint letter committing to the country’s “core socialist values”.

… Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk, along with 15 other automakers, including BYD (Tesla’s biggest Chinese rival), signed the joint letter at a motor conference in Shanghai on Thursday. The contents of the letter align with China’s ruling Communist Party and President Xi Jinping.

The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology constructed a joint letter targeting unfair fluctuating prices for the leading EV makers in the world’s largest car market.

The European measures represent even far less than what China has been doing. Non-Chinese companies can’t establish a subsidiary in China, they always need a Chinese partner that would then own the majority of the Chinese joint venture. And that’s just one among many other protectionist rules that illustrate how the Chinese Communist Party shields its domestic supply chains, including the use of forced labour.

That’s a deeply hypocritical, artificially constructed outcry by a Chinese regime that more and more depends on exports amid soft domestic demand. They are nervous.

This has been happening in Russia since the Kremlin started its invasion as Russia Admitted to Draft Problems as Anger Flares Into Violence already in 2022. It’s just that in Russia, these incidents are now censored.

In related reports last year, Russia stepped up attacks on Ukrainian draft offices.

In the last couple of weeks alone, Bloomberg published a series of articles with, say, similar headlines:

Deutsche Bank Says China Is Energy ‘Winner’ in Age of War (9 April)

How China Is Winning The War With Iran (1 April)

China Can Win Big With Little Treats (29 March)

It is the prolongation of a series of similarly worded headlines with similar narratives over the last years, maybe best presented in one of Bloomberg’s article in December 2025, titled, “Give Up On Winning Against China”.

You’ll easily find these examples and ample evidence of similarly worded headlines by Bloomberg, a media company that has been collaborating with China for some time now.

Examples:

• China Universal Asset Management and Bloomberg Establish Strategic Collaboration
• China Construction Bank and Bloomberg Deepen Collaboration

Does the independent media outlet’s collaboration with China pay off? Who is the winner?

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What are reliable sources in your opinion to examine China’s genocidal policies?

@Wakmrow@lemmy.world

@Wakmrow@hexbear.net

Instead of questioning sources, you could just name sources on China’s genocidal politics that you think are reliable. Where are they?

Rule 1: Title must match the article headline

• Russia’s losses amount to 65,000 soldiers dead or injured over the last two months alone

• Russian fatalities in Ukraine in the four years of the full-scale war are five times greater than all Russian and Soviet wars since World War Two combined

• Moscow’s losses in Ukraine are now more than 17 times greater than the Soviet Union’s losses in Afghanistan (1979-1989) and 11 times greater than Russian forces killed in both Chechen wars (1994-1996, 1999-2009)

• In January, Zelenskiy said 50,000 Russian losses per month would be “the optimal level” to ensure Russian losses in Ukraine became unsustainable for Moscow to replace with new recruits

Source

What is the difference between Russia and the US?

Just this week, Kirill Dmitriev, Putin’s “economic envoy” who also serves as CEO of Russia’s Direct Investment Fund, pitches joint US-Russia projects of 14 trillion USD, contingent on a peace agreement in Ukraine and the lifting of Western sanctions.

Also this week we heard that Gentry Beach, a US investor with close ties to the Trump family, signed an agreement with Russia’s energy giant Novatek already last autumn to develop natural gas in Alaska amid Western sanctions against Russia.

Trump’s negotiators for peace in Ukraine are Steven Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, two real estate developers and investor. What do they negotiate?

If such polls are useful at all then only to distract from reality. That helps autocratic regimes as they make autocratic regimes like Russia and China look as the lesser evil. It’s not true, though.

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Spain under Sanchez’s government has been ‘courting’ China for some years now, and the prime minister is intensifying it of late. Unfortunately, this has less to do with a strategy aimed at benefiting the Spanish economy and its people imo but rather with Sanchez’s fight for political survival. Sanchez is facing corruption scandals involving his brother, his wife, and close political allies of this socialist party. The recent resignation of a police chief over accusations of rape is adding to Sanchez problems. He needs some distractions it seems.

This statement makes no sense. China’s mercantilism - pushing for trade surpluses in practically all industries - wouldn’t even work if pursued by all countries (a trade surplus for everyone is logically impossible, and the attempt doesn’t end well as we have seen in Europe 300 or so years ago).

Beijing is subsidizing some sort of a zombie economy as many companies would long be shut down without massive state subsidies that go well beyond what can be considered reasonable. In the EV industry, for example, only 15 of 129 Chinese EV brands are expected to be profitable by 2030, according to a report from last year.

The US and China are artificially creating economic imbalances, it’s just that one is doing it mainly by tariffs and the other by deliberately producing oversupply.

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As an addition:

China Achieved Record Military Presence in the Indo-Pacific in 2025, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) China Power Project.

• Taiwan: In 2025, the PLA conducted a record-breaking level of air and maritime activity around Taiwan, sustaining the higher operational tempo of PLA activities that began following William Lai’s inauguration as Taiwan’s president in May 2024. This led to a marked increase in both average monthly PLA activities as well as a higher baseline of PLA activity. However, there was a minor year-over-year decrease in PLA activities in the latter portions of 2025, likely reflecting a temporary, tactical adjustment on China’s end. In 2025, China also conducted two large-scale military exercises around Taiwan, named Strait Thunder-2025A and Justice Mission 2025.

• South China Sea: The PLA conducted a record 163 recorded operations in the South China Sea in 2025, including a record number of live-fire drills. China continued to harass its neighbors, especially the Philippines, but shifted its most aggressive actions away from Second Thomas Shoal toward Scarborough Shoal. The China Coast Guard (CCG) more than doubled its presence around Scarbough Shoal in 2025 compared to 2024.

• Japan and Its Surroundings: China continued to maintain pressure on Japan, and there was a spike of notable PLA escalatory moves in November and December. Throughout the year, there was a slight increase in the number of PLA naval vessels reported operating in the waters around Japan, though the average duration of each PLAN vessel’s trip was shorter than in 2024. Similarly, there was an increase in the number of Chinese official ships within the contiguous zone of the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, but a decrease in Chinese activity within the territorial seas there.

• Beyond the First Island Chain: The PLA ramped up its far-seas training and operations in 2025. China’s navy conducted several unprecedented activities beyond the First Island Chain, including extensive voyages and live-fire drills around Australia and New Zealand, and simultaneous aircraft carrier operations in the Pacific for the first time. China’s two operational aircraft carriers, Liaoning and Shandong, engaged in nearly twice as many days of operation beyond the first island chain in 2025 compared to 2024. China’s coast guard also operated far into the Pacific.

• China-Russia Joint Military Exercises: China conducted six joint exercises with Russia in 2025—the lowest count since 2020 and down significantly from the all-time high of 14 in 2024. However, there were novel developments, most notably their first joint submarine patrol.

Just read and wanted to post the same story. Here is an archived version: https://archive.ph/YNOqG

Chinese propagandists spread that false news heavily also here on Lemmy (you’ll easily find the posts), despite the fact that even a quick research using easily available data has proven otherwise.

The Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post is a propaganda medium under the censorship rule of the Chinese Communist Party. This is not a credible source.

I firmly believe that China wants both a weak Russia and a weak Europe, or at least a Europe that is distracted by the Ukraine war. Beijing wants the war to prolong as long as it gets, but they don’t want neither side to win imo.

In a letter to the Financial Times entitled “The scenario that economic warfare experts fear the most” was enlightening, Eric Golson, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Surrey int the UK, provides valuable insights about why China support Russia, and possible consequences as well as necessary reactions by the UK and West:

… Despite the public displays of unity between Xi and Putin, China has a vested interest in a prolonged conflict. Like the US, it benefits from a weakened Russia, allowing Beijing to expand its geopolitical influence while Moscow remains distracted and depleted.

The scenario which concerns economic warfare specialists most is a Russian failure in Ukraine followed by internal Russian fragmentation, continuing the imperial disintegration that began in 1991. In that event, China could expand north and east, extending influence into oil and gas-rich regions such as Kamchatka, Sakhalin and parts of the Sakha region. These are territories China once held under the Qing dynasty. Control of this energy would strengthen China’s global position and reduce its vulnerability to pressure over Taiwan and the South China Sea. This is a plausible outcome if the Ukraine war drags on, yet there is little evidence of serious contingency planning in Whitehall or Washington … [Archived]