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11·2 months agoThey was fine with american products flooding their market and now they complains about chinese products?
This is not comparable as Chinese low-quality items are traded at a far higher volume. After the U.S. removed the de minimis-rule, for example, Air freight capacity between China and the U.S. dropped by almost a third.
Europe is now also planning to charge a €2 flat fee on small parcels from outside bloc:
In 2024, 4.6 billion such packages entered the EU - more than 145 per second - with 91% originating in China. The EU expects the numbers to rise.
[The EU’s trade chief Maros] Sefcovic said the figure represents a “completely new challenge to the control, to the safety, to making sure that the standards are properly checked of the products which are shipped to the European Union”.
Quick remainder that the reason for China’s sanctions were critical reports by MEPs on the Chinese Communist Party’s genocidal policy particularly in the Xinjiang region. As this is ongoing and hasn’t changed, there is no reason for the EU to lift its sanctions against China.
Currently, the Chinese individuals and organisations still blacklisted by the EU are:
- Zhu Hailun, former secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR)
- Wang Junzheng, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of XUAR
- Wang Mingshan, secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee -Chen Mingguo, vice-chairman of the government of the XUAR, and director of the XUAR Public Security Department
- The Public Security Bureau of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC)
2·3 months agoUkraine 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.
1·3 months agoAccusing people of bad faith without reason just because they disagree with you is one of the most disingenuous things you can do.
I fully agree. Just read many of the comments about the linked article. They do exactly what you portray.
The 50 cent warriors are somewhere else.
Amazing how this thread illustrates how many tankie alt accounts are here on Beehaw already.
Just read the article before you (intentionally?) misinterpret the content:
The admission of Chinese responsibility came during a secret meeting between outgoing Biden administration officials and Chinese representatives on the sidelines of a summit in Geneva in December 2024. […] The Chinese attendants referred indirectly to the activity as being a warning for the US to stay away from any attempts to support or defend Taiwan.
Your consent has been manufactured …
No, we do not consent. This is what your propaganda media is telling you to justify its own campaigns. Chomsky and Herman - with all the good points they make - are wrong in their conclusion as they paint too simple a picture. In a pure projection of their own misinformation and disinformation campaigns, this is used by Chinese propagandists to justify their activities.
[…] Protesting at hypocrisy; responding to criticism by accusing one’s opponent of similar or worse faults […]
Downvote for whataboutery. Some argue here on Lemmy that slrpnk.net is the new lemmy.ml, it really seems they are right.
From your comment one can easily infer that you didn’t read more than the headline.
Thank you for the conversation.
This is a list of words, these are not metrics.
they’re worst on almost every metric
Which metrics?
My or any government other than China’s have nothing to do when Chinese firms ignore safety, labor and other regulations. This is pure whataboutery.
As an example among countless others of your so-called ‘unintentional consequences,’ this is from 2012, when the one-child policy was still in place and there was outrage after Chinese woman forced to abort in seventh month
A woman in the western [Chinese] town of Ankang posted a gruesome photo after she was forced to have an abortion in the seventh month of her pregnancy. After the photo spread across the Internet in China, authorities in the Shannxi province have announced that they are sending a team to investigate, and will “deal with the case seriously in accordance with the law.” […]
Feng told a Caixin reporter that she was forced into the abortion because she can’t afford the 40,000 RMB ($6,300) penalty imposed by the local family planning department […]
Feng Jianmei said that on June 2 more than 20 staff from the town’s family planning department came to her home and arrested her. On the way to the hospital, as she resisted, she said she was beaten by the authorities.
During the injection, lethal to the fetus, none of her family was allowed to be present. When her father-in-law heard the news and rushed to the hospital he was prevented from entering the obstetrics ward. […]
As an addition:
Sex-selective abortions over the past four decades in China – (Study, published February 2025)
China now faces multiple challenging demographic and public policy problems that have emerged from four decades of sex-selective induced abortions […] The annual proportions and number of selective abortions [meaning that female fetuses were aborted much more often than males] rose in the 1980s with the strict family planning policy […] In China, the long-standing preference for sons, easy access to sex-selective technologies, and the spontaneous fertility decline have led to the continued practice of selectively aborting female fetuses, despite its prohibition. As a result, the imbalanced sex ratio may take years to normalize.
exacerbated in China’s case by the now-revoked One-Child Policy’s unintentional demographic consequences
These ‘unintentional demographic consequences’ were predictable, as the sex ratio became skewed toward males. Parents in rural areas were allowed a second child if the first was a daughter. In addition, having a girl became highly undesirable in China at the time, resulting in a rise in abortions of female fetuses,
Another effect was that the births of subsequent children after the first one went unreported or were hidden from authorities. These children- who, according to the authorities, should not have been born- were and still are banned from healthcare or free education, from travel or even from such simple things like using a library. The number of such children is not known, estimates have ranged from the hundreds of thousands to several million.
All this is very bad, and the authorities knew all this.
As a recent example, you may be interested to read on Australian who survived five years in a Chinese prison: ‘You start to go crazy’
Addition:
Overview: Dealing with extraditions to China
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