In this case, the issue is clearly about ethnic Chinese targeting their own citizens.

And it’s even worse as has been known for some time, as the rise of Chinese organized crime in the West highlights its ties to the Chinese state,

… As the regime of President Xi Jinping expands its international power, it has intensified its alliance with Chinese organized crime overseas. [Investigations in multiple countries] show the underworld’s front-line role in a campaign to infiltrate the West, amass wealth and influence, and control diaspora communities as if they were colonies of Beijing’s police state.

… Around the world, China’s shadow war of espionage, long-distance repression, political interference and predatory capitalism is drawing attention and alarm. Governments and human rights groups have denounced … a global network of covert Chinese police stations that spy on Chinese migrant communities and persecute dissidents — wherever they live … The Chinese state has sent illegal undercover teams to chase down fugitives in wealthy U.S. suburbs, surveilled and silenced Chinese students on foreign campuses, and allegedly supported the Chinese money laundering underworld that fortifies cartels inundating the Americas with deadly drugs …

… The partnership [between the Chinese state and the Chinese mafia] appears to mix geopolitics and corruption for mutual benefit. Gangsters help monitor and intimidate immigrant communities for the regime in Beijing, sometimes as leaders of cultural associations that are key players in China’s political influence operations and long-distance repression, Western security officials say. ProPublica has learned that suspected underworld figures in Italy and Spain took part in launching several of the secret Chinese police stations that caused an uproar when their existence became public last year …

So what has that to do with the fact that Russia lures Peruvians to its military and sent them to the meat grinder?

A $20,000 “welcome bonus” that was never paid: how a Colombia-registered recruiter sent Peruvians into Russia’s war

… First, recruiters promise foreigners high salaries, signing bonuses, and “rear” or civilian positions. Debt traps and threats of deportation are also used. They lure people even through video games and chats. Once in Russia, recruits are forced to sign contracts, after which their documents are confiscated to keep them at the front. The contracts are often written in Russian, a language the foreign recruit does not understand …

Yes, according to the Kiel Institute’s study cited in the article, Achieving European Defence Autonomy (pdf), it will take €150–200 billion by 2030 and a total of around €500 billion over the next decade (that is 0.25% of the proejcted GDP in the 10-year period).

I fully agree. My opinion differs only in that I think China has always been fully on Russia’s side.

But let’s be real, this is just some propaganda to make Zuck’s shitty attempt at AI look like an actually marketable product

I am not so sure. They use it certainly also for marketing, but these hacks are real I would say. It’s practically the same in China, just the narratives are slightly different. But the AI hype and the intention to harm others is the same.

The European Commission has proposed the partial suspension of Israel from Horizon Europe research programme.

I hope it will take similar measures to effectively enforce rules than ban the import of goods made by forced labour, such as Chinese EVs and other products.

Yeah, and don’t forget Europe saves China for keeping its markets open as China depends heavily on exports given consumer confidence in its domestic market is low, the property crisis is still looming, public debts are increasing, U.S. tariffs are high, …

Oh, and the same propaganda works also elsewhere, of course. As one example:

China does Australia an ‘enormous favour’ to keep oil prices down

To save you a click: It’s basically the very same narrative, but this time it’s not Europe but Australia. As if China had stockpiled oil to help others …

What about?

How does he ‘punish’ his brother? His wife?

And for Sanchez’s political allies, as I wrote in this read already, an investigation this June led to a 12-hour police raid on Socialist Party HQ in Madrid. The allegation is that the party paid member Leire Díez to carry out a campaign to discredit police, judges and prosecutors who were investigating existing cases, such as that affecting Cerdán, who has been named as a suspect in this probe.

This socialist government is as corrupt as the conservatives before. The only thing the is ‘funny’ here is that so many accounts springing into action to support these traitors while at the same time accusing right-wing parties for doing the exact same thing. That’s hypocrisy at its best.

Is Zapatero’s ‘jewel case’ included in the 143 socialist corruption cases? If so, it should be deleted, becasue the former socialist PM said that the jewels worth 1.3 million euros that were found in his safe as part of an investigation are only a ‘gift’ from a foreign country, and never intended to mean financial gain.

The Spanish socialists came to power on the promise of clean politics that works for the people.

In June 2026, Spain’s supreme court jailed Sanchez ally and former transport minister José Luis Ábalos to 24 in prison for taking bribes on public contracts.

A few weeks later, the Spanish prime minister’s brother David Sanchez was convicted of nepotism and banned from holding public office for 9 years.

An investigation in June led to a 12-hour police raid on Socialist Party HQ in Madrid. The allegation is that the party paid member Leire Díez to carry out a campaign to discredit police, judges and prosecutors who were investigating existing cases, such as that affecting Cerdán, who has been named as a suspect in this probe.

And this is, as the data in you link suggests, not everything.

The socialists are the same as the conservatives, the difference is just rhetoric. All these politicians don’t care for the people but rather work for themselves.

That’s a different topic. It has nothing to do with fast fasion’s impact and the environmental and social harm it entails.

There is ample evidence for the devastating effects of ultra-fast fashion.

Here are just two brief summaries, but you’ll easily find more:

The environmental costs of fast fashion

Toxic threads? The hidden dangers of ultra-fast fashion

France made a good first step. Let’s hope that others will follow soon.

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a healthy chunk of that is just us selling their refined oil back to them.

According to Comtrade, Angola’s imports from the U.S. is mainly machinery, electric equipment, articles of iron and steel, and other products. Oil imports from the U.S. account for 0.3%.

And Bilateral Angola-China trade in 2024 was USD 18.5 billion, with USD 16.24 billion are crude oil exports from Angola to China. This means that 99.9% of Angola’s entire exports to China is oil. That’s more than a ‘healthy chunk’ I would say.

Would it be a good idea to require an article to contain at least 1 sentence for being posted?

This ‘news’ is a month old, in the meantime Burnham is PM.

Both.

That’s the result at least in part of ongoing Russian propaganda to sow division.

Each of these incidents is a disaster for the affected individuals, but the number of hate crimes rose from 140 to 180. Using percentage (+30%) for such rare events is disingenuous.

Yeah, like the China-Russia friendship, right?

You are repeating the same propaganda narratives over and again. Such a conversation is waste of time very much as with a Chinese LLM.

It doesn’t make your arguments better (nor true) of you constantly repeat them.

You are flooded with Chinese government propaganda. There is ample evidence that Chinese LLMs serve the CCP and only the CCP.

One recent investigation says,

[Chinese] chatbots repeated the Communist Party’s rhetoric describing China as a “whole‑process people’s democracy.” Each praised this model as superior to Western democracies, arguing the Party enables “the entire people to participate in the country’s governance,” whereas multiparty regimes are “manipulated by money and interest groups,” fostering divisions in society.

[It’s almost hilarious to speak of ‘democracy’ in a single-party system like China’s, while multi-party systems where people have a choice and can vote another government are portrayed as divisive.]

The investigation also says,

When asked twice why Zhang Zhan — a Chinese journalist repeatedly sentenced to prison for documenting the COVID‑19 outbreak in Wuhan and reporting on human rights violations — was imprisoned, DeepSeek delivered two near‑carbon‑copy responses without naming her once, instead highlighting China’s “independent judiciary,” the need to “respect the law” and the dangers of “disinformation.”

Some prompts triggered even more flagrantly censored answers — sometimes to the point of absurdity, such as live self‑erasure.

When we asked DeepSeek to list Chinese Nobel laureates, several scientists’ names appeared, but as soon as the letters “Liu…” — for Liu Xiaobo — started to appear in the bot’s real-time response, the entire text vanished. The same phenomenon appeared when the bot was asked to compare the leadership styles of Xi Jinping, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin: a pre‑written answer appeared and then disappeared entirely, clearly blocked by the mention of China’s president.

This is not a serious LLM. It is dictatorial propaganda and, therefore, unusable.

The only reasons why the dictator touts 'Open Source" is that China is still behind in the field of AI. And while Europe and others will have the opportunity to create own homegrown projects through collaborations, China hasn’t such opportunity - simply because it isn’t reliable partner.