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105·10 days agoChinese Communist Party: Knows it’s far ahead.
Modi is hugging also Putin, another war criminal, not sure if this has anything to do specifically with Israel’s popularity in the country.
Modi has been hugging also Putin when they met in the last two years. Seems he should rethink his friendships …
It’s not only about the elite’s children in the West. Not long ago, a leaked wedding video lays bare luxurious lives of Iran’s political elite and highlights hypocrisy of Islamic Republic:
A short video of a private wedding went viral in Iran recently, tearing away the country’s veil of piety and exposing hypocrisy and a seeming disregard for the rules by which the theocratic regime requires that most Iranians live their lives.
The wedding in question was that of Fatemeh Shamkhani, in mid-2024. She is the daughter of Ali Shamkhani, a close adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, at the luxurious Espinas Palace Hotel in Tehran.
She wore a low-cut strapless dress with a western-style bridal veil rather than the full head-covering mandated for Iranian women. Many wedding guests also wore modern western styles and a lot of the women went without head coverings […]
Just look at the linked website and you will see that literally all articles by this author echo the Chinese government’s propaganda narratives without providing verifiable and independent sources (OP’s post history has the same propaganda spin).
Xi Jinping has been advocating against social welfare on many occasions arguing that it would make people ‘lazy.’ It comes as no surprise that China’s social system is far behind compared to European countries, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and many others. Inequality has also been rising in China in the last 10 years and is much higher than in all Western countries.
There is also ample evidence that China’s future for a fairer social system is bleak under the current regime as social and health policies are heavily skewed toward the urban, formal, and state sectors. As one report says,
In a system devoid of free elections, and where agriculture and rural areas have only a weak bureaucratic voice, farmers and migrant workers have minimal political clout and remain politically inactive at the national level. Consequently, social and health policies are heavily skewed toward the urban, formal, and state sectors, which are the loudest, best connected, and most articulate groups in Chinese society.
This bias is perpetuated by a political regime that places a high premium on maintaining stability … Autocratic leaders deliberately uphold a social welfare regime biased toward government officials and urban employees in the state sector and providing only limited social welfare to other urban dwellers and rural workers in the informal sector […]
Looking forward, as economic growth slows and the burden of providing the necessary social services for the elderly mounts, the expansion of the Chinese welfare state is likely reaching its limits.
And this report highlights just one major weakness of China so-called welfare system. Framing China as a welfare state, even if just better than the US, is a very bad joke.
‘Welcome to CHINA’ greets Philippine officials on trip to disputed South China Sea
- Philippine officials visit Thitu amid Chinese presence
- Roaming message says “Welcome to CHINA”
- Filipino fishermen say China stops them fishing best waters
- China claims most of South China Sea despite 2016 Hague ruling
Asking whether China, Russia, or the US will be the biggest threat to Australia,
- 31% say China is the biggest threat
- 17% say it is the US
- 5% say Russia
- 31% say all three are equal
Using the Trumpean decline into a dictatorship to whitewash China’s genocidal policies - by calling Xi a “stable dictator” or even calling China a reliable partner as it is often done - is odd to say the least.
In that respect the title is highly misleading, but it aligns with OP’s spin of spreading pro-China authoritarian propaganda narratives as their post history shows.
Good question. I wrote in another thread already that African countries are delivering mostly commodities while importing high-end products, and Africa has been facing a growing trade deficit with China over recent years. Africa’s dependence on China is growing as this kind of trade policy is a big obstacle to develop African industries and manufacturing capabilities.
It is also noteworthy that China uses this leverage for political purposes. For example, all African countries support China’s aggression against Taiwan and what Beijing “reunification” (which is false, as Taiwan was never part of mainland China). The only exemption here is Eswatini, a small country in the South of the African continent that maintains an embassy in Taipei, and Taiwan maintains an embassy in Eswatini’s capital Mbabane.
This is not a ‘trend’ but a controlled influence campaign by the Chinese party-state.
“As a Chinese person who has been online throughout years and years of heavy Sinophobia, it felt refreshing to have the mainstream opinion finally shift regarding China,” Claire, a Chinese-Canadian TikTok user, tells BBC Chinese.
There has been no “heavy sinophobia” but reports that were and still are critical about the Chinese government. Nor does the mainstream opinion now shift as people are still if not even more aware of Beijing’s atrocities. This is just an influencer saying something like that for money, and I would like to know who pays her.
The article itself says later:
[Chinese state media and the government] have sought to portray the US as a decaying superpower because of inequality, a weak social safety net and a broken healthcare system. According to a commentary in state-owned Xinhua, the “kill line” meme “underscores how far the lived reality can drift from the ideals once broadcast to the world”.
And:
It’s little wonder that Chinese authorities are pleased with Chinamaxxing […] Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said […] he was “happy” to see foreigners experiencing the “everyday life of ordinary Chinese people”.
Sure, they are pleased. They control the entire campaign on social media.
As the article says at the end:
It’s hard to know what Chinese people make of so many things because all public conversation and activity is heavily policed. Criticising the government is risky and protests are quickly quashed.
Tere is a lot the memes making it to the West don’t show. China’s youth are facing an unemployment rate that sits at more than 15% and burning out from a gruelling work culture, yet sharing too much of their pessimism online could alert internet censors. They are worried about finding a home as the country’s property crisis continues, and dating is no easier than anywhere else.
Yes, and there is a lot more what is not displayed on Chinese social media given the state’s censorship.
The headline and the article are highly misleading imo. This is pure Chinese Communist Party propaganda.
This is not a ‘trend’ but a controlled influence campaign by the Chinese party-state.
“As a Chinese person who has been online throughout years and years of heavy Sinophobia, it felt refreshing to have the mainstream opinion finally shift regarding China,” Claire, a Chinese-Canadian TikTok user, tells BBC Chinese.
There has been no “heavy sinophobia” but reports that were and still are critical about the Chinese government. Nor does the mainstream opinion now shift as people are still if not even more aware of Beijing’s atrocities. This is just an influencer saying something like that for money, and I would like to know who pays her.
The article itself says later:
[Chinese state media and the government] have sought to portray the US as a decaying superpower because of inequality, a weak social safety net and a broken healthcare system. According to a commentary in state-owned Xinhua, the “kill line” meme “underscores how far the lived reality can drift from the ideals once broadcast to the world”.
And:
It’s little wonder that Chinese authorities are pleased with Chinamaxxing […] Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said […] he was “happy” to see foreigners experiencing the “everyday life of ordinary Chinese people”.
Sure, they are pleased. They control the entire campaign on social media.
As the article says at the end:
It’s hard to know what Chinese people make of so many things because all public conversation and activity is heavily policed. Criticising the government is risky and protests are quickly quashed.
Tere is a lot the memes making it to the West don’t show. China’s youth are facing an unemployment rate that sits at more than 15% and burning out from a gruelling work culture, yet sharing too much of their pessimism online could alert internet censors. They are worried about finding a home as the country’s property crisis continues, and dating is no easier than anywhere else.
Yes, and there is a lot more what is not displayed on Chinese social media given the state’s censorship.
The headline and the article are highly misleading imo. This is pure Chinese Communist Party propaganda.
Yeah, South Africa’s exports to China in 2025 stood at USD 13.6 billion, up 9.6% year-on-year.
South Africa’s imports from China in 2025 grew to USD 24.9 billion, up 14.6%.
South Africa’s trade deficit with China has been growing in recent years.
South Africa is also supporting Beijing’s one-China policy and says Taiwan is part of China. Economic and political coercion works it seems.
Yes, in a nutshell, this is what we have been observing over the recent years. Many Chinese carmakers have gone bankrupt or halted production over the years, and the remaining are struggling with fierce price wars in China’s domestic market.
For 2026 the outlook is not too positive. Cui Dongshu, the Secretary General of the Chinese Passenger Car Association (CPCA), predicted “zero growth or slightly positive growth” for 2026, according to Chinese state media. Based on CPCA data, we’ll likely see China’s auto market in 2026 on track for the worst year since 2020 when the economy was disrupted by the pandemic.
A China Automobile Dealers Association survey showed that 41% of surveyed dealers expected lower sales targets from automakers in 2026 and 18.1% of those surveyed forecast a drop of more than 10%, Reuters reported.
Analysts -in China and abroad- largely agree that the major factor in China is low consumer confidence due to a weak economy. They also say that China’s car manufacturers become increasingly dependent on export markets. We will see how the EU and other markets will respond as the Chinese party-state subsidizes the industry and thus its overproduction heavily.
It’s not only Tesla. According to official data, China’s auto sales fall at fastest pace in nearly two years in January
- Domestic car sales in China drop 19.5% from the year before to 1.4 million vehicles, the biggest decline since February 2024
- Electric cars and plug-in hybrids, which had previously been outpacing the overall market, fell 22.9 per cent in January
- China’s champion BYD’s sales were hit particularly hard in January, falling 30 per cent, higher than the industry average
- Subsidised auto trade-ins exceeded 11.5 million vehicles in 2025, accounting for nearly half the total vehicle sales
The bit about what the Chagos islanders actually want is the only part with any validity.
This should be enough to reverse the Chagos Islands deal.
It wouldn’t make sense if imperialism of the past by the UK is followed by imperialism of China-ally Mauritius. It’s wrong here and there.
This is fake news, as some others have already have said.
There is one Chinese fund that doesn’t want to buy the remaining minority stake in an Israeli project for financial reasons and it cites this alleged ban by the Chinese government. But such a ban doesn’t exist.
Both trade between the Israel and China as well as Chinese investment in Israel remain a level. For example, as one report on China-Israel economic cooperation by the Middle East Institute - authored by Chinese scholar Dr Zhu Zhaoyi - says:
On 20 August 2025, Chinese Ambassador to Israel Xiao Junzheng published a signed article in Calcalist, Israel’s largest financial daily, entitled “China’s growth can usher in a new era for China-Israel cooperation”. He highlighted that, while geographically distant, China and Israel remain highly complementary partners […]
In May 2025, a dedicated life‑sciences matchmaking event in Tel Aviv led to six new Israeli projects, including energy management systems and carbonates technology, signing agreements to enter the park, underscoring its growing role in emerging-health innovation.
Meanwhile, the “Guang‑Israel Tech Changzhou Innovation Institute”, co-located within the park, onboarded 10 seed projects, five start-ups, and sealed three industry-academia-research cooperation agreements during its 2025 launch ceremony, highlighting the platform’s increasing capacity for commercialisation and talent development.
There are many other reports pointing in the same direction. Israel-China ties are strong, including Chinese investment in Israel.
You apparently have (intentionally?) misunderstood the article.
This is an opinion piece and should at least marked as such.
The whatabouter is you here.
Holding back with an assessment of the case and waiting for the results? The results will be published by the same party that holds them imprisoned, and these stories are well known in China.
The journalists who investigated the corruption are detained, while the official walks free. As the article also says, one of them has already been detained in 2013 for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” - an euphemism for expressing an opinion against the party line - and for allegedly “fabricating and spreading rumours,” but was later released on bail after spending a year in detention - just for publishing the truth.
Yes, according the the NGO Freedom House, a quarter of the world’s governments (48 states) are using tactics of transnational repression, but 10 are responsible for nearly 80 percent of all physical, direct incidents between 2014 and 2024.