There is a war in Ukraine after Russia invaded the country. China has been playing war games around Taiwan while Beijing has been increasing its aggression practically in the entire South China Sea. It’s noteworthy that the Chinese government has been increasing its military budgets in the last 30 years which is another threat to its neighbours in the region.

It’s clearly said in the report, and the conclusions are very clear and reasonably.

This @plyth is a troll permanently downplaying the Chinese government’s atrocities, mostly through weird comments that I would describe as pseudo-intellectual. Save you breathe I would say.

The same outlet reported yesterday:

The ‘Chinese Dream’ is shrinking for Gen Z

… Beijing reported [its] economy hit its 5% GDP growth target [in 2025. Exports held up. Industrial output stayed resilient …

Many young Chinese millennials and Gen Zers, who are trading down on everything from fashion to career ambition, are gripped in a deep sense of morass. The stepping stones to a solid, middle-class life seem to be sinking away, and the promise of long-term financial stability is crumbling as the housing market does the same.

“Even though a recession has not taken place, a lot of the symptoms of recession have been experienced by this young generation, particularly around unemployment and underemployment,” [says] Zak Dychtwald, who runs consumer research firm Young China Group …

Youth unemployment is high — around 17% — and that number also doesn’t capture the growing number of graduates taking jobs they never expected to need. Last year, Chinese social media lit up after a Ph.D. graduate posted about turning to food delivery work. Around the same time, a gas company announced it was recruiting graduates and postgraduates as meter readers.

“College education has become much more attainable for young adults,” said Zhou Yun, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Michigan. “Yet the returns to college education have not kept pace.”

You’ll find many of similar stories about China. It seems the Chinese students and graduates are unfortunately chasing whatever job they can get as the economy has been loosing spin for a long time. It’s not that great as their government wants to make the world believe.

The US and China: Who is better?

Just stumbled upon this image and it says more than thousands word imo.

News from October 2025: China overtakes US as Germany’s top trading partner

Maybe it’s just me, but there are so-called ‘news’ all over the place - everywhere, but particularly on Lemmy - that frequently hail China for all kinds of things, although nothing is new (and often it’s not even true).

Some of these ‘China great’ articles appear over and again with more or less the same content, sometimes just with slightly different framing. To me this feels like cheap propaganda. I firmly believe this is not organic but part of an orchestrated disinformation campaign, not in the least as many of these infinite loops here on Lemmy come from OP.

Isn’t the Ford CEO a big China fan who has been praising Chinese EVs for years?

… since the outbreak of the war in Israel, Beijing has classified Israel as a “high-risk area” and imposed a ban on any new Chinese investments in the country.

The South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong-based Chinese propaganda outlet, published just last week that China, Israel continue to collaborate in science and tech despite unrest in Gaza.

While Beijing supports Palestine and has a fractious relationship with Tel Aviv’s closest ally, cutting-edge innovations keep them together.

In a report published just now in February 2026, Lloyd’s Bank explicitly says,

Chinese investment in Israel has grown rapidly in recent years, particularly in software, IT services and consumer electronics.

Trade between China and Israel is also at an all-time high since the outbreak of the pandemic, and this hasn’t notably changed since the Gaza war (with Chinese exports to Israel have always been higher than imports from Israel, so Israel runs a trade deficit with China).

It’s important to note that this Chinese Ballet Vision fund cites losses of its investment since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, and it seems this is the real issue here. China is heavily investing and trading with Israel. Nothing has changed.

This is not much more than propaganda, the numbers paint a different picture. China-Israel business ties are stronger than ever, despite Gaza.

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… since the outbreak of the war in Israel, Beijing has classified Israel as a “high-risk area” and imposed a ban on any new Chinese investments in the country.

The South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong-based Chinese propaganda outlet, published just last week that China, Israel continue to collaborate in science and tech despite unrest in Gaza.

While Beijing supports Palestine and has a fractious relationship with Tel Aviv’s closest ally, cutting-edge innovations keep them together.

In a report published just now in February 2026, Lloyd’s Bank explicitly says,

Chinese investment in Israel has grown rapidly in recent years, particularly in software, IT services and consumer electronics.

Trade between China and Israel is also at an all-time high since the outbreak of the pandemic, and this hasn’t notably changed since the Gaza war (with Chinese exports to Israel have always been higher than imports from Israel, so Israel runs a trade deficit with China).

It’s important to note that this Chinese Ballet Vision fund cites losses of its investment since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, and it seems this is the real issue here. China is heavily investing and trading with Israel. Nothing has changed.

This is not much more than propaganda, the numbers paint a different picture. China-Israel business ties are stronger than ever, despite Gaza.

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Several current and former staff at this propaganda medium either work or have worked also for Russian propganda media like RT and Sputnik: Anya Parampil, Alex Rubinstein (the latter has been arrested during Trump’s first inauguration protests in 2017 in the U.S.), Kit Klarenberg, Mohamed Elmaazi, Dan Cohen, Rania Khalek and Jeremy Loffredo (see also here).

Some of these guys also work or have worked for the Kremlin.

Regarding the topic it is noteworthy that according to reports based on leaked documents, now Gray Zone managing editor Wyatt Reed received funding from Iranian broadcaster for “occasional contributions to its programming in 2020 and 2021” while he was working as a correspondent for Russia’s Sputnik news outlet.

And this is only a tiny sample of what you can tell about this medium that stands very close to authoritarian states.

This is not about making money but about national security. China does the same btw, you can’t acquire stakes in Chinese infrastructure as a foreigner. Australia can payout China for its share, but there must be absolutely no discussion that Australia regains control imo. The untrustworthy trading partner here, once again, China. They don’t play by the rules.

You should never sell critical infrastructure to a dictatorship. I hope Australia goes ahead and corrects this mistake.

Not only Russia, but China, Iran, and some other dictatorial governments. They celebrate Trump.

China … opted to install factories on the ground. They create jobs …

I’m not sure whether I got that right. China has been opening up factories in Europe, so far I agree, but that has little impact on the job market in Europe as the Chinese companies bring their own workers. We see this, for example, in Spain (CATL), Hungary (BYD), in the Balkans (Norinco, a Chinese state-owned military supplier that built solar projects there, among others) as well as in other parts of the globe. There are only of few local workers at Chinese foreign subsidiaries, while the most come from China. Also, illegal workers and forced labour is widespread in this setting (recent examples are Italy’s fashion industry or Chinese carmaker BYD’s closure of its Brazilian plant amid accusations of ‘slave-like’ labour conditions).

And these are only a few examples.

Sure, he can defend himself at the ICC.

As the latest news comes after Mr. Martin’s visit:

China pressing European countries to bar Taiwan politicians or face crossing a ‘red line’

Chinese officials have been pushing “legal advice” on European countries, saying their own border laws require them to ban entry to Taiwanese politicians … Archived version

Did the Taoiseach also discuss this with Xi Jinping as China is -once again- interfering in foreign politics? Or were they too busy when criticizing Europe for its ‘hypocrisy’ and lack of competitiveness?

Oh, yes, you’re right. Now read the posts critical of Europe or any Western democracies and whatbout there, too, as these distraction attempts only work one-way so far.

This article is about China.

Your comment is whataboutism.

There is this time now when people, perhaps rather conveniently in Europe and indeed elsewhere, might be ignoring that China’s economy has massively been running on slave-like labour for long period now. I think these and other human rights violations in China aren’t gone. I think China has very strong dictatorial policies, censorship, and surveillance capabilities, and therefore, calling ‘genuine partnership’ important while not even mentioning these crimes discredits Mr. Martin completely. As a European, I don’t want this cHeAp PrDuCtS mAde By SlAvE LaBoUr.

Mr. Martin didn’t discuss Europe’s growing trade deficit with China. And when speaking on ‘issues around Chinese subsidies,’ he claims that ‘they make similar accusations in China about Europe.’ I would really like to know what these Chinese accusations about European subsidies are. This is makes no sense as Chinese subsidies are far higher than anything allowed in Europe.

The Irish PM is conveying Chinese talking points after his China visit, and he is even hypocritical given he is calling for a ‘trade framework with China’ while opposing the EU-Mercosur trade deal.

Yeah, the regime in Pakistan has been standing very close to China for a long time now, sliding deeper into autocracy.

Iran’s army defends the Mullah’s against the country’s citizens. Just because Trump exploits the situation for its own gain does not mean the regime in Iran is better by any means.