Climate Action Tracker for China

• Policies and action: insufficient
• NDC (nationally determined contributions) target against modelled domestic pathways: highly insufficient
• NDC target against against fair share: insufficient
• Overall rating: highly insufficient

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Climate Action Tracker for China

• Policies and action: insufficient
• NDC (nationally determined contributions) target against modelled domestic pathways: highly insufficient
• NDC target against against fair share: insufficient
• Overall rating: highly insufficient

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What should Hungarians do to prevent a further drift into dictatorship? Sitting at home and watching propaganda TV?

Climate Action Tracker for China

• Policies and action: insufficient
• NDC (nationally determined contributions) target against modelled domestic pathways: highly insufficient
• NDC target against against fair share: insufficient
• Overall rating: highly insufficient

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You continue to engage in whataboutism. What a waste of time.

The renewable energy is one thing. China is the largest emitter of carbon dioxide, and emissions are still rising.

It’s blatant whataboutism as this report is on China, and it says the country’s climate emission policy is insufficient. Just read the report.

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This is the -unfortunately expected- whataboutism.

Additional renewable energy capacities do not compensate the harm done to the climate by carbon dioxide emissions, and China’s emissioin are still rising while it is already the world’s largest emitter as the report also says.

Chinese companies should only be allowed to found companies in the EU as a joint venture with a European partner, while this European partner holds a controlling majority. I am sure that China will fully support such a law as a reciprocity is an important feature of global trade.

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Here is another article on this issue: China’s Massive Detention of Foreigners

Let us not forget the people in Xinjiang who pay a harsh price for cheap Chinese EV cars. Unfortunately, forced labour and supply chain transparency wasn’t an issue here.

I wouldn’t say they ‘redesigned’ it. As the Wikipedia article reads, among others:

However, after Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, religious conflicts re-emerged, and the Shadian problem as an example shows an unreconciled discord between the CCP and Islamic religious groups in China.

In 2022, the government began renovations to remove the Arabic-style architecture from the Grand Mosque of Shadian and replace it with Chinese-style pagoda architecture. The renovations were completed in 2024.

As the linked article suggests, things are getting worse. This ‘redesign’ is pure propaganda.

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Das passt zum Thema (leider)

Erster Prozess gegen Ex-BVT-Chefinspektor Egisto Ott am 6. November – (Archiv)

Am 6. November steht der frühere leitende Mitarbeiter des aufgelösten [Österreichischen] Bundesamts für Verfassungsschutz und Terrorismusbekämpfung (BVT), Egisto Ott, wegen Amtsmissbrauch vor Gericht.

[…] Ott wird in der anstehenden Hauptverhandlung zur Last gelegt, er habe in seiner damaligen Stellung als Beamter des Innenministeriums im Auftrag des mitangeklagten früheren FPÖ-Politikers Hans-Jörg Jenewein einen weiteren Beamten beauftragt, Informationen zu Teilnehmern eines Treffens europäischer Nachrichten- und Geheimdienste zu beschaffen.

[…] Gegen Ott wird von der Staatsanwaltschaft Wien seit 2017 wegen Amtsmissbrauchs, geheimen Nachrichtendiensts zum Nachteil Österreichs und weiterer Delikte ermittelt. Am 29. März 2024 wurde er fest- und bis zum 26. Juni in U-Haft genommen. Ausschlaggebend für die Inhaftierung waren Informationen, Ott habe Diensthandys von drei früheren Kabinettsmitarbeitern des seinerzeitigen Innenministers Wolfgang Sobotka (ÖVP) dem russischen Inlandsgeheimdienst FSB übergeben.

[…] Ott bestreitet [auch] einen SINA-Laptop mit möglicherweise brisantem Datenmaterial dem FSB verkauft zu haben. Das Gerät soll am 19. November 2022 in Wien mit falschen Pässen ausgestatteten Männern, die vermutlich dem russischen Geheimdienst zuzurechnen waren, übergeben und über Istanbul nach Moskau zum Sitz des FSB gebracht worden sein. Den Deal eingefädelt haben soll Ex-Wirecard-Vorstand Jan Marsalek, der mittlerweile für den russischen Geheimdienst tätig sein soll.

That’s by far enough here.

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

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These comments have nothing to do with economics.

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).

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.

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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.

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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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