Yeah, not just redirecting funds, they can also use forced labour to lower their production costs.

They have already done that, just read their Project 2025.

@peopleproblems@lemmy.world

These comments have nothing to do with economics.

The member countries approved the Commission’s move already.

May I ask where this happend?

Yes, and according to an EU report in 2023, only 0.065% of the bloc’s sheep population had been killed by wolves and there had been no reports of fatal wolf attacks on humans for 40 years. Source (you need to scroll down to the end of the article for these numbers).

it’s not implausible that this operation could have been setup without Chinese government involvement

Sure, the Chinese government knows nothing. It’s not that the CCP is surveilling every inch in the country, including in Xinjiang and Tibet. This is just a small firm which does that without any knowledge by the government (/s, just to be safe).

Suppose you see such posts on social media, would you really think, “Ah, that’s a funny joke”, and laugh about it?

As the article suggests, there haven’t been too many with that sense of humor to say the least.

I don’t omit the context. They say it was intended as a joke after it backfired on social media, and the company’s apology - as the article states - is somewhat quiet (on the other hand, the Chinese government - usually not averse to censor content it deems unpleasant - apparently had no problem with it).

A detail that is buried somewhere in this article is that Fico’s government apparently takes de facto control of Slovak parliament’s intelligence oversight committee, which is traditionally controlled by the opposition. So there is no independent oversight at all.

It’s time for the EU and its member states to ban any surveillance software and protect EE2E (including abandoning such things like ‘chat control’) if they want protect Europe from the further rise of authoritarian regimes.

Überall, wo KI bislang in der Sozialpolitik bzw. in ihrer Verwaltung eingesetzt wurde, endete das meines Wissens in einer Katasrophe.

I didn’t edit out anything. Everyone can read the the article to understand the issue and its context.

And there appear to be many who do not understand this ‘joke’:

Internet users responding to the apology, numbering more than 60,000 by noon Thursday, remained mostly unmoved. Some called on the company to make a public apology directly to the employees, while others suggested a video apology would be more appropriate. For most, it was reminder of the pitfalls of jumping on the video humor bandwagon.

Ja, auf Deutsch habe ich dazu nichts gefunden, aber auf English zumindest einen Artikel.

Chinese economist disappears: Is Zhu Hengpeng victim of Xi Jinping’s war on dissent? – (Archiv-Link)

Unter anderem heisst es da (nach dem Zwischentitel “Critique of China’s economic landscape”):

Zhu’s economic analysis was a direct critique of China’s current policies, particularly in taxation and social security. He highlighted how the country’s heavy tax burden and flawed social security structure inhibit the growth of residents’ consumption levels. Drawing on international examples, he argued that sustainable economic growth requires a robust social security system alongside significant public spending to reduce income inequality, alleviate public anxieties and expand the middle-income demographic—steps essential for boosting consumer demand.

Es geht dann noch ein bisschen weiter. Viel Details kann man zwar auch nicht erfahren, aber ein bisschen was steht drin.

@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world

Again, flip over to any other industrialized nation and you’re going to find the same media trends. You get to fixate on “China Media Bad” because you’re not getting spammed with American propaganda about Hindu nationalists or Japanese fascists. But then we are as guilty of drinking the propaganda kool-aid as any other country. And a big part of that kool-aid is the exceptionalism mentality that insists we’re clear-eyed while everyone else is being brainwashed.

What a rubbish. I live in a (Western) country where racism and nationalism and all the sh’t that it entails is much older than modern-day China, but the media isn’t controlled here. Journalists and bloggers and private persons on social media can freely write and criticize, including the government.

I wondering when you get tired here about this whataboutism. In the context of the death of a 10-year old this is even disgusting.

@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world @Wogi@lemmy.world

I feel these are somewhat simplistic explanations (I doubt, for example, that Wogi’s college students are old enough to have experienced in person and thus be “really pissed about the horrific war crimes”, there must be a more complex issue behind).

There is, apparently, a persistent form of racism in China, namely the prejudice that the Han Chinese are more advanced than other cultures inside and outside of China. This does also, though not exclusively relate to Japan.

How the media in China have reported -or, better, how it did not report- on the incident is a sad reminder on Chinese propaganda and media control. But it also shows how this brutal killing and the Chinese state-media’s silence might be linked to decades of anti-Japanese education and cultural conditioning in China.

There is also a good video by a foreigner living in China (19 min): CHINA: RACISM: China’s Ugly, Disturbing yet Open Secret — (archived link). It’s very insightful and worth everyone’s time.

Last year, Human Rights Watch urged the Chinese government to combat anti-black racism on Chinese social media.

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In that case it’s Iceland, but I feel countries do that anywhere - with other bears, wolves, whales, …

Read what Al Jazeera has been reporting on and you know the answer to your question.

Es gibt viele Arten, die Jugendarbeitslosigkeit zu berechnen (oder andere ökonomische Metriken). Man kann die Studenten reinrechnen oder eben nicht.

Der Punkt hier ist aber, dass die chinesische Regierung das jahrelang getan hat. Danach hat man dann die Studenten einfach aus der Statistik genommen und offiziell verkündet, dass die Regierung die Jugendarbeitslosigkeit erfolgreich bekämpft hat. Das ergibt ökonomisch natürlich keinen Sinn, weil sie im Vergleich zu vorher einfach nur einige Arbeitssuchende weggelassen haben.

Es gibt leider seit ein paar Jahren in China ähnliche statistische “Anpassungen” auch in anderen Bereichen, nicht nur bei der Berechnung der Arbeitslosigkeit. Leider spiegeln die offziell gemeldeten statistsischen Kennzahlen häufig nicht die Realität wider.

“NL seems to have lost faith in the market,” …

… says finance minister who has never worked in the private economy.

Just stumbled upon a new research identifies human rights abuses in battery supply chain – [archived link]:

Research from Infyos has identified that companies accounting for 75 per cent of the global battery market have connections to one or more companies in the supply chain facing allegations of severe human rights abuses […] most of the allegations of severe human rights abuses involve companies mining and refining raw materials in China that end up in batteries globally, particularly in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in northwest China.

The research company Infyos says that supply chain changes are needed to eliminate widespread forced labour and child labour abuses occurring in the lithium-ion battery market. It would be interesting to know what Mr. Sanchez says about this.

In other news this week, the Spanish PM is quoted saying he doesn’t want “a war, in this case, a trade war.” So what does he say about China’s support for Russia in its war in Ukraine, Beijing’s aggressive behaviour in the South China Sea against the Philippines, against Taiwan, Japan, Australia, and other Asian neighbours?