Let’s hope the best. Sweden has just deployed Gripen in Iceland as part of its Nato air policing according to a report:

The deployment has also provided Sweden with an opportunity to demonstrate the Gripen’s capabilities to Canada. SAAB is seeking to persuade Ottawa to revisit its decision to purchase 88 American F-35 jets produced by Lockheed Martin, offering instead to manufacture Gripens in Canada and create 10,000 jobs.

There are a lot more examples, unfortunately. But I guess the author is referring to Mr. Carney’s speech in Davos soon after his visit to China where he ‘revived’ ties with Beijing, apparently ignoring its human rights violations.

What kind of news is tthis?

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What are reliable sources in your opinion to examine China’s genocidal policies?

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Instead of questioning sources, you could just name sources on China’s genocidal politics that you think are reliable. Where are they?

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• Russia’s losses amount to 65,000 soldiers dead or injured over the last two months alone

• Russian fatalities in Ukraine in the four years of the full-scale war are five times greater than all Russian and Soviet wars since World War Two combined

• Moscow’s losses in Ukraine are now more than 17 times greater than the Soviet Union’s losses in Afghanistan (1979-1989) and 11 times greater than Russian forces killed in both Chechen wars (1994-1996, 1999-2009)

• In January, Zelenskiy said 50,000 Russian losses per month would be “the optimal level” to ensure Russian losses in Ukraine became unsustainable for Moscow to replace with new recruits

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What is the difference between Russia and the US?

Just this week, Kirill Dmitriev, Putin’s “economic envoy” who also serves as CEO of Russia’s Direct Investment Fund, pitches joint US-Russia projects of 14 trillion USD, contingent on a peace agreement in Ukraine and the lifting of Western sanctions.

Also this week we heard that Gentry Beach, a US investor with close ties to the Trump family, signed an agreement with Russia’s energy giant Novatek already last autumn to develop natural gas in Alaska amid Western sanctions against Russia.

Trump’s negotiators for peace in Ukraine are Steven Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, two real estate developers and investor. What do they negotiate?

If such polls are useful at all then only to distract from reality. That helps autocratic regimes as they make autocratic regimes like Russia and China look as the lesser evil. It’s not true, though.

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What is the difference between Russia and the US?

Just this week, Kirill Dmitriev, Putin’s “economic envoy” who also serves as CEO of Russia’s Direct Investment Fund, pitches joint US-Russia projects of 14 trillion USD, contingent on a peace agreement in Ukraine and the lifting of Western sanctions.

Also this week we heard that Gentry Beach, a US investor with close ties to the Trump family, signed an agreement with Russia’s energy giant Novatek already last autumn to develop natural gas in Alaska amid Western sanctions against Russia.

Trump’s negotiators for peace in Ukraine are Steven Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, two real estate developers and investor. What do they negotiate?

If such polls are useful at all then only to distract from reality. That helps autocratic regimes as they make autocratic regimes like Russia and China look as the lesser evil. It’s not true, though.

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Spain under Sanchez’s government has been ‘courting’ China for some years now, and the prime minister is intensifying it of late. Unfortunately, this has less to do with a strategy aimed at benefiting the Spanish economy and its people imo but rather with Sanchez’s fight for political survival. Sanchez is facing corruption scandals involving his brother, his wife, and close political allies of this socialist party. The recent resignation of a police chief over accusations of rape is adding to Sanchez problems. He needs some distractions it seems.

This statement makes no sense. China’s mercantilism - pushing for trade surpluses in practically all industries - wouldn’t even work if pursued by all countries (a trade surplus for everyone is logically impossible, and the attempt doesn’t end well as we have seen in Europe 300 or so years ago).

Beijing is subsidizing some sort of a zombie economy as many companies would long be shut down without massive state subsidies that go well beyond what can be considered reasonable. In the EV industry, for example, only 15 of 129 Chinese EV brands are expected to be profitable by 2030, according to a report from last year.

The US and China are artificially creating economic imbalances, it’s just that one is doing it mainly by tariffs and the other by deliberately producing oversupply.

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I get your point, although we should not generalize as there are many people who stick to independent information.

I agree that here on Lemmy we see a lot of this bit of human psychology, though. Tankies like OP do it all the time. Their alt accounts’ post histories have a special spin in that they (rightfully) condemn Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians, for example, while in their .ml communities they are literally cheering Russia’s atrocities against Ukrainian civilians.

As one study says:

… The presence of left-wing extremism on the Lemmygrad. ml instance of the decentralized social media platform Lemmy, from its launch in 2019 up to a month after the bans of the subreddits r/GenZedong and r/GenZhou … reveal a substantial increase in user activity and toxicity levels following the migration of these subreddits to Lemmygrad. ml. …

[Users] frequently share posts that support authoritarian regimes, as seen in their support for China, North Korea, and Russia. Moreover, their support can extend beyond backing these authoritarian regimes, even cheering on their violent actions, as evidenced by their posts on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Additionally, we observe anti-Zionist and antisemitic behaviors, which show similarities to right-wing extremism … Our analysis suggests a concerning endorsement of authoritarian actions and extremist rhetoric on Lemmygrad. ml, further indicating that left-wing extremist communities on decentralized platforms should receive more attention from the academic community.

It’s a deeply disturbing mindset.

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Yes, but that is not news at all. If they are serious about that, they could at least post a real article about it instead of just some social media comment no one knows its even real.

That’s cheap anti-Western propaganda provided by hexbear.

That’s always the same empty propaganda rant.

China’s invasions happened long time ago, but the genocides in East Turkestan, Tibet, and Inner Mongolia are not only still going on but have been intensified in the recent decade.

And it’s not the ‘ruling class’ that wants a free Tibet but the Tibetans.

China’s atrocoties against Uyghurs, Tibetans, and other minorities within the country, its increasingly aggressive behaviour against its Asian neighbours on land and at sea, transnational repression and political interferences in Canada (Canada is among the most targeted countries worldwide by China in that respect), death threats by Chinese officials against officials of other governments (Japan) and even entire populations (Japan, Australia), … the list is too long for a comment here …

… if Canada were to team up with China in a humanitarian effort …

I would agree Canada to send oil to Cuba, but Canada doesn’t need China for this. And China’s own support for Cuba doesn’t reflect ‘humanitarian effort’ but rather an attempt to gain influence in the region. Very much as the US administration, China has no interest in humanitarian assistance, they seek leverage over others to exploit them for their own goals.

There are ‘free’ media trips to Israel, China, the US and many other countries, and (almost) all are paid by their governments. This is not really new.

Just read and wanted to post the same story. Here is an archived version: https://archive.ph/YNOqG