"This goes beyond the destruction of democracy as a political system: the kneecapping of public health, disaster response, climate crisis mitigation, and global influence (through the suspension of foreign aid) affect every area of civil society and government. Putin’s dream is to make the United States into a version of 1990s Russia: Trump and his allies seem to be motivated by a similar goal."

#Musk #Trump #Putin #China #democracy #EconomicElites #Project2025 #WhiteChristianNationalism
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"A unifying theme of the actions taken by the new Donald Trump administration and its Project 2025 and other allies is wrecking the United States as a democratic power, to the benefit of Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, and other autocratic adversaries, and creating the conditions for the U.S. elites and oligarchs to prosper."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

#Musk #Trump #Putin #China #democracy #EconomicElites #billionaires #autocracy #authoritarianism #Project2025
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https://lucid.substack.com/p/wrecking-america-so-that-autocrats

Die USA wollen die Nachkriegsordnung in Europa zerstören. Putin und Trump teilen sich den Kuchen auf, womit Europa als Konkurrent auf dem Weltmarkt verschwinden würde. Übrig blieben drei autokratische Regime: China, Russland, USA.

Mit Europa würden auch die Ideen der Aufklärung und Demokratie verschwinden.

Ist das jetzt zu schwarz gemalt?

#Europa #Russland #USA #China

#AntiImperialism
#cuba
#ned
#usaid
#usa
#tiktok
#tech
#ai
#china
#russia
#venezuela
#Gaza
#Palestine
#Syria
#iran
#lebanon
#Genocide
#geopolitics
@palestine@a.gup.pe
@palestine@lemmygrad.ml
@gazawatch @flawed
@lebanon
@irannachrichten @yemen
#whitesupremacy

11KM-Podcast: Was die USA, China und Russland wollen

Heute startet die Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz - und die weltpolitische Lage ist so angespannt wie lange nicht mehr. Der Podcast 11KM fragt: Was steckt hinter dem Dominanzstreben von China, Russland und den USA?

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/podcast-11km-sicherheitskonferenz-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#11KM #Podcast #Sicherheitskonferenz #USA #China #Russland

Trump will mit Russland und China über nukleare Abrüstung verhandeln

Fünf Prozent des BIP für Verteidigung fordert Trump von NATO-Staaten - ein Wert, den auch die USA nicht erreichen. Nun will Trump Abrüstungsgespräche mit Russland und China - und spricht davon, die US-Verteidigungsausgaben zu halbieren.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/trump-china-russland-verteidigungsausgaben-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Trump #Verteidigungsausgaben #China #Russland

"When the Chinese hacker group known as Salt Typhoon was revealed last fall to have deeply penetrated major US telecommunications companies—ultimately breaching no fewer than nine of the phone carriers and accessing Americans' texts and calls in real time—that hacking campaign was treated as a four-alarm fire by the US government. Yet even after those hackers' high-profile exposure, they've continued their spree of breaking into telecom networks worldwide, including more in the US.

Researchers at cybersecurity firm Recorded Future on Wednesday night revealed in a report that they've seen Salt Typhoon breach five telecoms and internet service providers around the world, as well as more than a dozen universities from Utah to Vietnam, all between December and January. The telecoms include one US internet service provider and telecom firm and another US-based subsidiary of a UK telecom, according to the company's analysts, though they declined to name those victims to WIRED."

https://www.wired.com/story/chinas-salt-typhoon-spies-are-still-hacking-telecoms-now-by-exploiting-cisco-routers/

#CyberSecurity #China #SaltTyphoon #StateHacking #USA #BigTelco #Hacking

In case you didn’t know this, #Tesla is aggresively suing bloggers and news outlets that criticize them—and even their own customers—in #China. They use their cozy relationship with the Communist Party to bully and punish critics into silence.

“In a review of public court documents, the AP found that Tesla won nearly 90% of civil cases over safety, quality or contract disputes brought by customers.”

Please, get rid of your Teslas.

#cars #corruption

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-sues-customers-journalists-china-defamation/

As JD Vance delivered his speech about “European overregulation” and criticized “endless compliance costs imposed on the US companies by GDPR” I have seen some voices from Europe who said something to the effect “I don‘t know a single EU company happy about #GDPR either”.

Well, it’s kind of obvious companies aren’t happy because GDPR was not made to make companies happy but to protect the privacy of consumers 😄

This regulation is based on fundamental differences between US and EU legal systems. In EU, you own and control your personal data. In US it’s owned by whoever managed to extort it from you, and then aggregate, personalise and resell to any other entity anywhere.

For example, if you want to pay higher insurance premium because you have genetic tendencies to diabetes or obesity - well, that’s the US way of doing business, but it’s not the only one, nor it’s somehow axiomatically “better”. And yes, high insurance premiums also have the effect of increasing overall country’s GDP, just as a house burnt and rebuilt also does this magic, yet somehow few people celebrate it 😉

Then someone asked me if I really “feel that my data is better protected thanks to GDPR”. And yes, as a matter of fact the most invasive behavioural profiling aren’t being rolled out by companies like Twitter or Facebook to EU specifically because of GDPR, while in US they just roll them out without asking anyone.

Anyone… of course except for the states which have regulations very similar or even more restrictive than GDPR, such as California. Yet, because California is “their”, these companies and their CEOs with high media presence simply shut up and make their apps compliant with CCPA without all this barking about “how GDPR kills out business”.

It’s the same with EU VAT, about which Vance also whined, whereas US sales tax accounting rules are not even harmonized across states. But hey, you know what? An US business that has to emply a tax consulting company to get multi-state accounting right also increases overall GDP! 😄

So effectively what in US is perceived as each state’s fundamental right, sign of their diversity and key part of their autonomy, in the EU is portrayed as something equivalent to Soviet Union style central planning. And when they post all the memes about “bottle caps” in EU, they of course never mention a gazillion of state-level archaic or absurd regulations which are nonetheless binding, especially if someone likes to build a class lawsuit around them.

And now as Tesla opened a new factory in #China, I’ve never seen Musk make a single critical remark about the overregulation in China, even though it’s even more complex than EU and US taken together due to its vast geographic and administrative diversity.

Tesla has been suing complaining customers in China for defamation. They’ve won almost every time. Read more from @AssociatedPress
https://flip.it/IX0uCf
#Telsa #Musk #China #Lawsuits #Defamation

Her parents were injured in a Tesla crash. She ended up having to pay Tesla damages

https://apnews.com/article/tesla-china-lawsuits-musk-investigation-58b10ccace488784fcc63646ab78b410

Zhang Yazhou was sitting in the passenger seat of her Tesla Model 3 when she said she heard her father’s panicked voice: The brakes don’t work!

Tesla sued her for defamation for complaining publicly about the car’s brakes — and won. A Chinese court ordered Zhang to pay more than $23,000 in damages and publicly apologize to the $1.1 trillion company.

#Tesla #China #defamation #press

Out now: Climate Risk Index 2025 #CRI2025.
⚠️ #Dominica, #China & #Honduras most affected by extreme weather events between 1993 and 2022.
➡️ Read the full report: https://www.germanwatch.org/en/cri

In a country of strict control they stand,
Dissidents silenced by China's hand,
Exiled voices they try to muffle,
In their quest to quell the shuffle,
In the fight for freedom they take a brave stand.

#GuardianLimerick #China #Russia #Europe #Uyghurs #Media

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/12/quarter-countries-exiled-dissidents-china-governments-transnational-repression

There once was a land of dissent,
Where voices were swiftly silenced, hell-bent.
Exiled dissidents tried to speak,
But in China, truth was bleak,
Their cries for freedom often went unmeant.

#GuardianLimerick #China #Russia #Europe #Uyghurs #Media

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/12/quarter-countries-exiled-dissidents-china-governments-transnational-repression

In China, dissenters face a plight,
Silenced by the government's might,
Exiled for their views,
They pay heavy dues,
Speaking out is a dangerous fight.

#GuardianLimerick #China #Russia #Europe #Uyghurs #Media

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/12/quarter-countries-exiled-dissidents-china-governments-transnational-repression

There's a country with power and might
Silencing those who dare shed light
Exiled dissidents they chase
Hiding in fear, in disgrace
China's iron grip holds on tight

#GuardianLimerick #China #Russia #Europe #Uyghurs #Media

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/12/quarter-countries-exiled-dissidents-china-governments-transnational-repression

Trigg Minerals ( #TMG ) has released " TRIGG MINERALS JOINS THE U.S. OTCQB MARKET " on Wed 12 Feb at 08:22 AEST #China #trading #UnitedStates #Australia #media
https://grafa.com/asset/trigg-mining-ltd-10345-tmg.asx?utm_source=asxmktsensitive&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=tmg.asx

#WhiteHouse #budget proposal could shatter the #NationalScienceFoundation
"This kind of cut would kill American #science and boost #China."
Two sources told Ars the science agency should expect to see steep cuts in Trump's forthcoming budget request. In recent years, #NSF has received annual budget of approximately $9B, vast majority of which is spent on research. Cuts could be as deep as 66%, with one person indicating top-line budget number for NSF could start at $3B.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/02/white-house-budget-proposal-could-shatter-the-national-science-foundation/

Quadruped robots in China are increasingly used for hazardous tasks such as patrolling underground tunnels and waste management.

#china #technology

"The Chinese economy is in a precarious position, and the country’s overcapacity problem is forcing it to increase exports and creating pushback across the world. China’s economic future is uncertain, and the downturn may not be reversed even with active government intervention, regardless of what the United States does.

Yet Chinese leaders remain confident that, even if the country’s economy suffers, four years of Trump is unlikely to send it into a full-blown crisis. And they anticipate that if Trump follows through on his declared policies, such as those on trade and territorial expansion, he could do severe damage to the United States’ credibility and global leadership. Beijing thus sees Trump’s second term as a potential opportunity for China to expand its influence farther and faster. In this view, competition with the United States is not in itself the driving force behind China’s grand strategy. It is instead one component of a larger process: China’s rise and displacement of the United States as the world’s leading superpower, what Xi often describes as “changes unseen in a century.” Beijing assumes that Washington’s own policies will dismantle the foundations of U.S. global hegemony, even if it creates a lot of turbulence for other countries in the process. China’s top priority, then, is simply to weather the storm."

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/chinas-trump-strategy

#China #USA #Trump #Imperialism

... es wird nicht nur die #Wissenschaft behindern und beschädigen, sondern langfristig den aktuell noch langsamen wirtschaftlichen Abstieg der #USA als #Weltmacht weiter beschleunigen - zugunsten von (hoffentlich) #Europa, mit Sicherheit aber #Asien (#China, #Indien, u.a) ...

Europa wäre gut beraten, diesen Weg nicht zu wählen, der auch uns drohen könnte, wenn sich mehrheitlich die nationalstaatlich geprägten Regierungen mit konservativer bis rückwärts gewandter #Wirtschaftspolitik durchsetzen.

Hier eine Grafik mit der Verteilung der weltweit erteilten #Patente (als ein Indiz für Innovationskraft und Kreativität) bzw. deren Inhaber nach Staaten für das Jahr 2023:

Quelle: WIPO Statistics Database, August 2024
Link: https://www.wipo.int/en/ipfactsandfigures/patents

NO DEAL

‘Gaza belongs to Palestinian people’: China opposes Trump’s plans to take over enclave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YA_zQAglVE

China’s foreign ministry said on Thursday that “Gaza belongs to the Palestinian people” and is not a “bargaining chip for political games,” in response to US President Donald Trump’s plan to take over Gaza…

#China #Trump #Gaza #HandsOff #NoDeal #Colonialism #Absurdity

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Was die Großmächte Trump-USA, Putin-Russland und Xi-China auf der Welt anrichten, geht auf keine Kuhhaut.
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#China
#Tibet
#Kinder
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#press
#politics
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“In Valdai, confronting the “American problem” in West Asia”

by Pepe Escobar in The Cradle

“While Trump runs riot w/ his global land grab projects, multipolar visionaries in Valdai were mapping out the actual, tangible territorial routes that will define this century's geopolitics and geoeconomics”

https://thecradle.co/articles/in-valdai-confronting-the-american-problem-in-west-asia

#Press #Moscow #BRICS #ASEAN #WestAsia #Trump #Gaza #EthnicCleansing #Genocide #Occupation #Reconstruction #GlobalRegimeChange #AbrahamAccords #Syria #Turkiye #Iran #China

Por si alguien duda del peligro que representa #Trump para la comunidad internacional, que piense que tiene bajo su mando el mayor y más destructivo ejército del mundo. Tarde o temprano chocará con #China o #Rusia y sus bravatas serán puestas a prueba. https://www.lavanguardia.com/internacional/20250207/10362158/haya-condena-sanciones-trump-promete-continuar-labor.html

#China's long term goal of reclaiming #Taiwan frustrated by #Panama and #UnitedStates.
#Trump
China fails to slow down US #Navy by losing economic control of #PanamaCanal.
#investing
#premarket
"China lashes out at US ‘coercion’ after Panama declines to renew infrastructure agreement."
https://apnews.com/article/china-us-panama-canal-belt-road-9452852d8e074902d3f2a75fa73f5060

China wirft USA im Streit um den Panamakanal Sabotage vor

Gestern kündigte Panama an, Chinas "Neue Seidenstraße" zu verlassen. Die Führung in Peking reagiert nun verärgert: Sie beschuldigt die USA, das Land im Streit um den Panamakanal unter Druck gesetzt zu haben. Von Eva Lamby-Schmitt.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/asien/china-usa-panama-vorwuerfe-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#China #Panama #USA

The #KidStarver bullshits again!

“13 things you should know about Starmer's nuclear plan”

by Another Angry Voice on Substack

@UKLabour

“Keir Starmer is very clear about how he's planning to bulldoze opposition to his new nuclear plan, but he's being deeply deceptive about his motivations, and who the eventual benefactors will be”

https://open.substack.com/pub/anotherangryvoice/p/13-things-you-should-know-about-starmer-fire-up-nuclear-plan?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios

#Press #UK #Starmer #Labour #Nuclear #Energy #Putin #Bogeyman #France #China #Misinformation #Disinformation #Lies #Ofgem #Profiteering

🇺🇸🇻🇪 $98 million from USAID to the trash can

https://x.com/upholdreality/status/1887518981952528410

(how many impoverished, homeless Americans could have been housed or provided health for with 98$ million of our tax $$?)

#venezuela
#usa
#geopolitics
#tiktok
#tech
#colorrevolutions
#coupdetat
#usaid
#antiimperialism
#anarchism
#socialism
#china
#russia
#blackmastodon
@politics

Panama verlässt Chinas "Neue Seidenstraße"

Panama verlässt die chinesische Investitionsinitiative "Neue Seidenstraße". Sein Land habe kaum davon profitiert, sagte Präsident Mulino. Doch offenbar spielte auch der Besuch des neuen US-Außenministers eine Rolle.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/panama-china-seidenstrasse-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Panama #Seidenstraße #China

“Gaza is the Gaza of Palestinians, an integral part of the Palestinian territory, not a political bargaining chip, let alone the target of a law of the jungle.”

“Any arrangement on the future of Gaza must respect the will and independent choice of the Palestinian people, and must not be imposed upon them.”

China's Foreign Ministry

@palestine
#Gaza
#China

#canada
#denmark
#greenland
#mexico
#colombia
#russia
#china
#brics
#sahel
#panana
#congo
#tech
#tiktok
#ai
#deepseek
#Gaza
#Palestine
#Syria
#iran
#lebanon
#Genocide
#geopolitics
@palestine@a.gup.pe
@palestine@lemmygrad.ml
@gazawatch @flawed
@lebanon
@irannachrichten @yemen
#SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism
#antiPalestinianracism
@blackvoices
@BLKNewsNow
#blackmastodon

(In campaign) #Trump to #Putin :

"end ridiculous war": (in #Ukraine )

(In charge) #Trump to the world :

#Threatens to send #troops :

* to #Panama🤦🏼‍♂️
* to #Greenland 🤦🏼‍♂️
* to #Gaza #Billionaires #Riviera 🤦🏼‍♂️

#Threatens with #commercial #wars:

* #Canada 🤦🏼‍♂️
* #Mexico 🤦🏼‍♂️
* #Denmark 🤦🏼‍♂️ (sends Air Vessels)
* #France 🤦🏼‍♂️
* #China 🤦🏼‍♂️
* All (the majority?) of #UE countries 🤦🏼‍♂️

Gosh : this has become a #thread ...

Are you f__cking kidding us ?

https://elpais.com/internacional/2025-02-05/la-casa-blanca-se-reafirma-en-el-plan-de-trump-para-controlar-gaza-pese-al-estupor-de-la-comunidad-internacional.html

#Trump will aus #Gaza ein Touristenressort machen, #Grönland mit #Öl-Bohrtürmen zupflastern und #Kanada stört auf dem Weg nach #Alaska sowieso.

Langsam frage ich mich, ob die berechenbare Überwachungsdiktatur von #China gegenüber den unberechenbaren Herrschaftsfantasien der #USA nicht das kleinere Übel ist. (Natürlich nur rethorisch.)