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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It reminds me somehow on the famous xkcd webcomic: https://xkcd.com/2347

Edit for an addition: Maybe it’s also a reminder that we should frequently donate when we use FOSS.

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.

What is the ‘evil’?

Quick reminder what caused the protests that have been going on in Serbia since November 2024.

Three weeks ago, six people, including a former Serbian minister, were arrested on Friday over their involvement in reconstruction of a railway station in Serbia’s Novi Sad, whose roof collapsed last November killing 16 and triggering Serbia’s biggest anti-government protests in decades.

… The six are suspected of inflating invoices from a consortium of the two Chinese companies - China Railway International Co and China Communications Construction Co - who were given the task of reconstructing both the railway station at Novi Sad and tracks, the [official] statement said.

They are suspected of damaging the state budget by $115.6 million, the statement said, and also said that by inflating invoices the Chinese consortium benefited by $18.8 million, but gave no further details …

China’s existing embassy was inherited from the Qing Dynasty. Makes sense why they want a replacement to reflect their current status.

What an absurdly weird take.

It would be fine if they would commit themselves to showing joint leadership also on human rights -a key issue closely related to climate as we know - but I somehow doubt Beijing would agree.

@Grerkol@leminal.space

The Chinese party-state not only censors its own country heavily, it also doesn’t allow foreign media ownership within its borders and doesn’t allow foreign media ownership within its borders. Citing “freedom of expression and information” when it comes to Chinese media ownership is deeply hypocritical and discredits you.

It’s a Russian website registered with a Russian registrar. Just look up yourself before trolling around.

As an addition: The UK stands here with Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan in a rare show of global solidarity as these countries also announced new sanctions against Russia.