Italian fashion brands have been becoming under heavy pressure over probes by Italian authorities because of labour abuse and exploitation of Chinese migrant workers at subcontractors’ workshops on Italian soil, where the brands produced some of their products. It’s supposedly easier to produce in China, where labour laws are much weaker and workers’ rights are de-facto non-existent.

This effects not only Gucci but more or less all Italian brands.

A patent boom is certainly a meaningful indicator of innovative capacity, but it does not necessarily equate to technological supremacy. China’s patents is not commensurate with the importance of its patents as a large part of these patents aren’t even renewed (it’s also in the WIPO report).

The issue with scientific publication is similar issue. Even the Chinese state-controlled media like the South China Morning Post has published article on AI-powered fraud and Chinese paper mills are mass-producing fake academic research. The FT wrote, China’s fake science industry: how ‘paper mills’ threaten progress,

… China’s impressive output [of scientific research] masks systemic inefficiencies and an underbelly of low-quality and fraudulent research. Academics complain about the crushing pressure to publish to gain prized positions at research universities.

“To survive in Chinese academia, we have many KPIs [key performance indicators] to hit. So when we publish, we focus on quantity over quality,” says a physics lecturer from a prominent Beijing university. “When prospective employers look at our CVs, it is much easier for them to judge the quantity of our output over the quality of the research,” he adds …

The headline numbers alone are meaningless. If we look closer, we’ll see a different picture.

While data on tech tours is scarce, broader industrial tourism is booming. China’s industrial tourism sector ⁠pulled in $17.8 billion last year, according to state media, and is projected to blow past 300 billion yuan ($44.6 billion) by 2029.

Shanghai-based tech tour agency GloPen says inquiries jumped 50% in 2026 from mostly European and Singaporean clients, and it now ​runs over 100 single-day company tours every month.

This is another hype to tell the so-called “China story” with an article that falls short of any in-depth content.

But the podcaster will help to spread the word.

In other articles, one author wrote that “I went to China to see a different AI future. It looked familiar”,

My trip to China revealed an AI race that looks less like a clash of competing visions, and more like two countries racing toward a similar future.

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Can we be sure that you aren’t a pro-China, pro-Russia propaganda bot who says that tankies are ‘well-informed’ and who says the tankies’ cheering on Russia’s violent actions against Ukraine is just because they have ‘different values’ as one can see from your post history?

I watched this interview, and the most important detail in my opinion in this interview was he supports use of force on Taiwan, but he refuses to say why exactly. His arguments remain weak. Maybe the reason is money?

China has been Malaysia’s best trade deficit partner (and the deficits has quadrupled over the last ten years). As a ‘partner’ of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, Malaysia also seeks investments.

China’s special administrative region, Hong Kong, is Malaysia’s second largest foreign direct investment contributor (second only to Singapore, according to 2023 data). One prominent example was the investment by Chinese-owned INV New Material Technology in a lithium-ion battery plant in Penang.

Malaysia’s Port Klang plays also a growing role in shifting global supply chains.The Port Klang Free Zone has received a surge of inquiries from everywhere, but especially from China, not in the least as the country’s mercantilist policy seeks relief from higher US tariffs.

The annual assessment of threats posed by neighbouring China, Russia and North Korea calls for Japan, constrained for decades by postwar restrictions on military activity, to harness technology, to fund startups and use more commercial components in weapons production.

It’s sad that we must build up defense, but with neighbours posing ongoing threats there is no other choice, unfortunately.

You’ll find multiple very reliable sources across the web with simple searches. Regarding the the Center’s ties with the CCP, Wang’s book about Chinese narrative ‘models’ or and this multiple functions in the Chinese party-state’s bureaucracy. The latter is even widely cited in Chinese state media.

The linked video is apparently an interview with Zoon Ahmed Khan, analyst and fellow at the Center for China and Globalization …

The Center for China and Globalization (CCG), based in Beijing, is a member of an alliance of similar organizations, coordinated by the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party.

The CCG was jointly founded in Beijing in 2008 by Wang Huiyao, a Chinese State Council advisor who is still the organization’s president, and Mabel Miao, the current vice-president and secretary-general. They are the authors of a book, which deals with the question of “how to create new narrative methods and models” for China.

Wang Huiyao is also associated with the United Front Work Department (UFWD), a networks of groups and key individuals that are influenced or controlled by the Chinese Communist Party to advance the interests of the Chinese party-state.

Wang plays multiple policy advisory roles in China in addition to counselor for the State Council (appointed by Premier Li Keqiang in 2015), e.g., as honorable vice chairman of China Association for International Economic Cooperation (CAIEC) under the Chinese Ministry of Commerce. He has also served as a director of the China Overseas Friendship Association, an external name for the Ninth Bureau of the UFWD of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. Wang is also vice chairman of the Western Returned Scholars Association, which is under the jurisdiction of the United Front Work Department.[

This is a very tiny summary of the Center for China and Globalization and its founder. You’ll easily find multiple sources about this organization and its founders.

As everything else related to the CCG, the linked video is nothing but a propaganda film by the Chinese government.

“Planners have set a deadline for coal consumption to peak no later than 2030

Dude, do you understand the difference between ‘to peak’ and ‘to phase out’?

That aside, even if the coal’s share of the power mix was less than half in China in June, the total volume of coal-generated electricity has increased. This is not good news.

But there is no coal exit strategy in China.

And let me say that it’s not that you are wrong. We all tell bullshit from time to time. What’s absolutely weird and unacceptable is your way to communicate and your tonality. It’s this complete disconnected world view and often ridiculously false narratives paired with a weirdly stubborn I-know-it-better-than-anyone-else attitude.

I end this discussion now. Believe whatever you want.

China continuing their trajectory to start phasing coal out in 2030

China still lacks a coherent coal exit strategy. There is also no clear commitment in the current 15th five-year plan to call a halt to coal expansion (while it says that fossil fuel energy consumption would increase by 8-10%, reversing the slow-down in fossil fuel energy consumption during the 14th FYP period). This comes form the Chinese Communist Party.

You are making unfounded statements out of literally nothing, sometimes even in direct contradiction to the Chinese government itself. What you are saying is complete fantasy.

The way to turn everything into a “China good” narrative just to keep the propaganda going is really hilarious.

China’s coal production fell in June by almost 10% only as a result of a coal mine explosion in the Shanxi province in late May. As the country is temporarily not able to produce enough coal itself, it increased its June imports by more than 30% (while coal production in June fell just 10%).

In the first half-year 2026, the 1.7% increase of Chinese coal imports perfectly matched the country’s 1.7% production decline (which was, again, only due to a coal mine explosion rather than a deliberate policy decision).

Overall fossil power generation in China rose 0.5% year-on-year in June and 2% in Q2.

Nothing here is ‘good’.

China is still by far the world’s largest coal producer and consumer, and the country’s economy is still heavily reliant on coal and other fossil fuels. It will have to be seen whether this ‘milestone’ is sustainable or an effect of China’s slowing economy.

Meanwhile, the share of coal in electricity generation in the EU fell from 16% in 2022 to 12% in 2023, and it’s still going down.

You overestimate the surveillance state in Europe. This is not China.

The two countries may have a shared future, but prosperity sides only with one country (and it’s not Thailand).

Between 2013 and 2024, Thailand’s exports to China grow from USD 27 billion to more than USD 35 billion, +22%

In the same period, Thailand’s imports from China grew from USD 35 billion to more than USD 80 billion, +128%.

Thailand’s trade deficit with China grew by a factor of six in the last decade, a pattern we observe we almost all of Beijing’s ‘partners’.

This was Chinese propaganda, perfectly timed around International Workers’ Day on 1 May. It wasn’t a law, though, but a court ruling that spread across media back then, although it has been widely misinterpreted.

The Chinese court ruling doesn’t change that trend [of automation moving from blue-collar to white-collar industries], Moshe Lander, an economics professor at the Canadian Concordia University said at the time:

Indeed, the Chinese ruling doesn’t forbid companies from using AI to automate certain roles held by humans […] Workers, the ruling says, “should also understand the strategic development needs of enterprises, continuously update and improve their professional skills through continuous learning, proactively adapt to the changes in artificial intelligence technology, promote the efficient application of AI technology in production practices, and foster a win-win situation of personal career growth and efficient enterprise development.”

Lander said the ruling, which was issued ahead of China’s Labour Day on May 1, was likely a messaging and “self-preservation” exercise for the ruling Chinese Communist Party given the potential widespread impact of AI-led labour disruptions.

“There’s so many potential people that could be caught up in this that the risk of civil unrest, the risk of regime overthrow, is probably much more paramount to them than concern for the actual worker itself,” he said.

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The article is paywalled. It’s not the first time that OP is posting only headline in favor of China without a content.

Many US-based scientists have been moving to other countries over Trump’s crackdown on research funding.

Nature reported:

The move [ Omar Yaghi leaving the US] comes as the administration of President Donald Trump continues its attempts to slash US science spending and limits international research partnerships. Some nations, including China, have responded by trying to lure US talent with the promise of money and support. Earlier this year, for instance, France announced that it would award funds to dozens of US scientists relocating there. China has been wooing international researchers with talent-recruitment programmes, and some of its cities and provinces are even offering researchers lump sums and monthly allowances to relocate within their borders.

A quick remainder that this is not only limited to the EU.

Among the larger economies, China has been increasing its business ties to Israel significantly. Bilateral Israel/China trade rebounded since 2023 and in 2025 reached a record high (including Hong Kong).

China benefits more than Israel, as the growth is heavily asymmetric. While Israeli imports from China rose by 25 percent between 2023-2025 to more than USD 16 billion in 2025, Israeli exports to China plummeted by 40 percent to less than USD 3 billion, resulting a huge trade surplus for China.

China is the biggest exporter to Israel with some 25% of Israeli imports coming from China, more than double the US volume. So China makes good money in Israel, too.

In addition, Chinese companies continue to participate in the construction of huge projects critical to the Israeli economy.

I didn’t mean to call you out. What I wanted to say is that although the system may be imperfect, it is better than in dictatorial regimes celebrated by Novara Media.

This is a textbook example of selection bias by a propaganda medium. They single out 1 measure out of 34, publish “the West bad” tonality, and then hail autocratic systems like the one in China as the solution, although the welfare system and labour rights there are catastrophically worse. This is an essential part of disinformation warfare.

Tim Cook has surrendered Apple to China long time ago. More than 80% of iPhone are still made in China, even though Cook was trying to move production to India in the recent couple of years. It’s essentially a Chinese company dependent on the regime’s decision. If they want Apple to buy in China, they need to buy in China.

They need to fire the dumb fuck who made the rule, but I’m not sure what system they use there and how long they’re stuck with him.

‘They’ use a democratic system which means that usually they are stuck with the “dumbfuck” until the next election. Very much unlike in dictatorships where they are stuck with the “dumbfuck” for much longer while any critique similar to what we read here would be harshly punished as ‘they’ have no say.