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62·23 hours agoI wrote this in another thread, but it fits also here: It’s good that they don’t buy, but Spain just signed a contract with China’s Huawei to provide digital storage systems for its law enforcement and intelligence agency provide digital storage systems for its law enforcement and intelligence. So I feel it’s a Spanish hypocrisy here.
The argument of slave labour in China is one manufactured in Washington. There are bad working conditions in various places and there’s corrective labour, but no slavery.
Your statements are wrong, they even replicate China’s state propaganda. There has been strong evidence for slave labour and repression of Uyghurs and other minorities now for a long time.
Europe had a thriving solar industry in the 2000s, and we must revive that.
So Spain didn’t sign a contract with China’s Huawei as reported in local media? (To answer the question: Yes, of course they did.)
I get what you mean. On the other hand, dependence on a server infrastructure is much worse imho.
Andrzej Duda is a pro-Russia, pro-China politician and former presidential candidate of the Polish PiS, a far-right politcial party. It’s not too surprising that this interview has been conducted by Euronews, owned by people close to Hungarian PM Viktor Orban, who is a pro-Russia, pro-China politician of Hungarian Fidesz, a far-right political party. This is nothing but a propaganda piece.
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It’s good that they don’t buy from Israel, though at the same time Spain uses China’s Huawei for its intelligence and police systems. Isn’t that a bit inconsistent?
This is for training teens and kindergartners for war.
As Moscow prepares for possible negotiations with Washington aimed at ending its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it is seeking a far more ambitious outcome than a mere ceasefire: a global reordering of spheres of influence.
In the Kremlin’s view, such an agreement would effectively mean U.S. recognition of Russian dominance in the post-Soviet space — including Ukraine — and, to some extent, an acknowledgment of its influence in Europe.
To secure that goal, the Kremlin is now scouring for incentives it believes can catch and hold President Donald Trump’s attention, ranging from rare earths deals and geopolitical leverage in Iran and North Korea to a long-dreamed-of Trump Tower in Moscow.
Five current Russian government officials, including two diplomats, three sources close to the Kremlin and employees of three major state-owned companies confirmed this to The Moscow Times, all speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.
“The main thing is that they [the Americans] don’t interfere in our affairs and don’t tell us how to live,” said a senior Russian official familiar with the Kremlin’s negotiating logic. “That they don’t hinder us in doing what we are doing.”
What an absurdly derailed comment in this context.
Posts circulating on Chinese social media encourage ‘real men’ to join Vladimir Putin’s army. And while Beijing censors anything that puts China in a bad light -such as reports on Chinese citizens fighting for Russia and being caught by Ukraine- it doesn’t censor Russia’s conscription ads. And this is just another among many activities how China support Russia’s aggression.
Addition, and as a contrast to that, Indians were ‘duped’ by agents into fighting for Russia, with stories how they got tricked by agents and sent to the battlefield have shocked their families, all of whom are poor - their parents and siblings in India are either tuk-tuk drivers, tea sellers or handcart sellers.
You’ll find easily more reliable sources with similar content.
And with most (all?) far-right outlets in Europe, we must not forget their close ties to Russia …
Addition:
Ending the Schwarzer Tango with Moscow: The Freedom Party of Austria and the Embrace of Neutralism – [Study from 2022]
[…] The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) has long been considered a radical right wing populist party characterised by its friendly stances towards Putin’s Russia. Since 2008, the party leadership has organised events that advance the Kremlin’s foreign policy interests; travelled regularly to Moscow to discuss political, social and business issues; participated in various efforts aimed at legitimising Russia’s aggressive international behaviour; and even signed a coordination and cooperation agreement with the ruling United Russia Party at the end of 2016
In a similar context, there is a good analysis from January 2025:
Marriage of Convenience: How European Far-Right and Far-Left Discovered China
European far-right and far-left political parties, though ideologically opposed, are finding common ground in their alignments with China, echoing Beijing’s narratives and raising concerns about foreign influence and manipulation.
Ukraine hits Chinese firms with sanctions after accusing Beijing of arming Russia
The [sanctions] list […] named Beijing Aviation And Aerospace Xianghui Technology Co. Ltd, Rui Jin Machinery Co. Ltd, and Zhongfu Shenying Carbon Fiber Xining Co. Ltd, all described as registered in China.
It did not give details of why they had been added to the sanctions list, which bans companies from doing business in Ukraine and freezes their assets there.
Ukraine exported $8 billion of goods to China in 2021, mostly raw materials and agricultural products, while it imported from China just under $11 billion, mainly in manufactured goods, according to the Ukrainian government.
The title is a bit misleading, as the article says:
Instead [of a Russian LNG ban in the next the upcoming sanctions package], the Commission wants to iron out a new road map to end the bloc’s reliance on Russian energy by 2027.
Yeah, China and Spain appear to have good relationships. Spain’s PM Pedro Sanchez visited China just last week again, after his visits in 2024 and 2023.
One of Mr. Sanchez’s trusted figures regarding China-relations is former PM José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero from the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), who co-founded the Gate Center, a Spanish-Chinese organization aiming to strenghten the two countries’ ties., together with Chinese businessman Du Fangyong.
Mr. Zapatero has also acted as an intermediary to improve the image of Chinese company Huawei in Spain. The partner of Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares was vice president of Huawei Spain, and Esteban González Pons, deputy secretary general of Spain’s People’s Party (PP), supported Huawei’s participation in European technological infrastructure projects.
In 2021, another PP politician, MEP Gabriel Mato supported the EU-China Investment Agreement, highlighting its potential to open the Chinese economy to European investors and promote what he called “fairer conditions” (Mr. Mato did not elaborate about Beijing’s conditions for foreign investments in China, though). Last year, in 2024, Juanma Moreno, the president of the Spanish region of Andalusia, also made an official visit to China.
None of them ever discussed human rights issues, though.
China or any of those others are no direct military threat to Europe.
Chinese soldiers are already fighting in Europe, killing Europeans, including civilians and children. The Chinese Communist Party is censoring reports on Chinese soldiers being caught in Ukraine, but it doesn’t censor Russia’s conscription ads. This suggests that the Chinese party-state not only knows about these soldiers, they actively support Russia once again by their inaction, constituting a direct threat to Europe.
In 2023, then Chinese ambassador to France Lu Shaye (who is now Chinese envoy to Europe) said that former Soviet countries “have no effective status in international law.”
“In international law, even these ex-Soviet Union countries do not have the effective status because there is no international agreement to materialize their status of a sovereign country,” [China’s ambassador Lu Shaye] said.
“He denies the very existence of countries like Ukraine, Lithuania, Estonia, Kazakhstan, etc.,” [wrote] Antoine Bondaz, a China expert at the Paris-based think-tank Foundation for Strategic Research.
As EDRi-advisor Itxaso Domínguez de Olazábal cited in the article says, “Reopening the GDPR for simplification is risky," but the whole article is not about what its title suggests. I don’t want to play this down, but it’s a bit another clickbait headline by Axel Springer media. They somehow contradict themselves in the end:
According to Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems, the GDPR is still a “huge target” for lobbyists, but its core rules can’t easily be scrapped since the protection of personal data is enshrined in the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights as an inalienable freedom.
“A Court of Justice would annul a GDPR that doesn’t have these core elements," Schrems said. "So if it’s where [lobbyists] want to spend their energy, be my guest, but they’re not going to get there.”
As someone else already wrote, Chinese companies simply don’t care.
What does this mean? How do you give up territory “temporarily,” especially as “the 53-year-old […] stressed that the Ukrainian people would ‘never accept occupation’ by Russia”?
Mr. Klitschko should rather listen to Svitlana, the teacher cited at the end of the article: “Those who think that Putin will stop if he is given Crimea, they don’t know who the Russians are, he is not going to stop.”