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Europe@feddit.org•UK Parliament Calls for a Bolder Strategy on China, Critical Minerals and Economic SecurityEnglish
21·5 hours agoDisinformation is what you are doing here. Both reports are issued by the House of Commons, the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the UK.
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Europe@feddit.org•Chinese Embassy in the Netherlands attempted to dissuade Dutch officials from meeting Tibet PresidentEnglish
131·21 hours agoThis is the weirdest whataboutism I have read in a long time, and that’s not easy here on Lemmy.
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Europe@feddit.org•France: Disinformation networks from Russia, Israel, U.S. blamed immigration for French riots and portrayed authorities as losing control, reports sayEnglish
62·2 days agoThere are two different studies, one on Russia and the other on US/Israel. The numbers aren’t comparable as they may relate to different time spans, platforms, etc.
Also, that Russia has a lower reach in this one study is meaningless. The malign intention is the same, and it doesn’t even necessarily mean that there were fewer negative consequences.
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News@lemmy.world•Chinese carmaker BYD’s offices in Netherlands raided over JLR ‘copycat car' claim
11·2 days agoThis is, of course, not limited to EVs as China’s copycat culture spans across all industries. Another example is e-commerce, where Chinese platforms like Shein, Temu, Alibaba, Tiktok et al. widely engage in counterfeiting.
How Policymakers Can Stop Chinese Copycat Commerce
In global e-commerce, Etsy stands out for its mission to empower independent artisans to sell creative products in a marketplace where competition is based on originality and authenticity. But that model is under threat from the Chinese e-commerce ecosystem, where vendors mass-produce identical replicas or dupes that copy original designs without permission and undercut costs. This is not a series of isolated intellectual property (IP) disputes. Instead, it is a trade and IP policy issue that merits regulatory intervention …
Edit:
Chinese copycat cars: a new era of China’s strangely familiar car designs
The Chinese car market seems to have shifted away from the most blatant ‘copycats’ but there’s still a stunning lack of originality …
tardigrade@scribe.disroot.orgOPto
Europe@feddit.org•Chinese carmaker BYD’s offices in Netherlands raided over JLR ‘copycat car' claimEnglish
11·2 days agoThis is, of course, not limited to EVs as China’s copycat culture spans across all industries. Another example is e-commerce, where Chinese platforms like Shein, Temu, Alibaba, Tiktok et al. widely engage in counterfeiting.
How Policymakers Can Stop Chinese Copycat Commerce
In global e-commerce, Etsy stands out for its mission to empower independent artisans to sell creative products in a marketplace where competition is based on originality and authenticity. But that model is under threat from the Chinese e-commerce ecosystem, where vendors mass-produce identical replicas or dupes that copy original designs without permission and undercut costs. This is not a series of isolated intellectual property (IP) disputes. Instead, it is a trade and IP policy issue that merits regulatory intervention …
Edit:
Chinese copycat cars: a new era of China’s strangely familiar car designs
The Chinese car market seems to have shifted away from the most blatant ‘copycats’ but there’s still a stunning lack of originality …
tardigrade@scribe.disroot.orgOPto
News@lemmy.world•France: Disinformation networks from Russia, Israel, U.S. blamed immigration for French riots and portrayed authorities as losing control, reports say
186·2 days agoThe only thing that is racist here is your comment.
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News@lemmy.world•Chinese carmaker BYD’s offices in Netherlands raided over JLR ‘copycat car' claim
1·2 days agoNot like reading? Or just the usual deflection? The article contains some links, one of them takes you to photos.
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Europe@feddit.org•Chinese carmaker BYD’s offices in Netherlands raided over JLR ‘copycat car' claimEnglish
51·2 days agoChinese companies are well known for copycats. This isn’t an isolated incident (as the article also says), and it’ll be the last unfortunately.
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Europe@feddit.org•Europe’s “neocolonial” green hydrogen could keep Tunisia’s worst polluter aliveEnglish
1·2 days agoThis issue goes far beyond Europe. The linked piece doesn’t even try to touch even the most pressing points as it just hits against Europe. It’s poor content accompanied by a clickbaity headline that fits into OP’s apparent propaganda drive.
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News@lemmy.world•Chinese carmaker BYD’s offices in Netherlands raided over JLR ‘copycat car' claim
17·3 days agoThis is by far not the first ‘copycat case’ by China. Chinese companies are well known for this, and not only in the EV sector.
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Europe@feddit.org•Europeans got blue blinders in wake of midterm sweepEnglish
13·3 days ago… to follow Sanchez’s lead …
Sanchez opposed the US because he thought this would help him personally as he fights for his political survival. I don’t buy into his morality and ethics. Sanchez and his party has been facing a series of corruption scandals in Spain, involving family members and close political allies, and he has no problem to closely engage with China, the largest dictatorship on earth (for example, he contracted China’s Huawei with Spain’s judicial wiretap system, while banning Huawei from the public network over security issues).
Just this week, another police raid in Spain arrested 6 people close to Sanchez, including one of his former ministers, the minister’s spouse, and Sanchez’s driver.
The only thing Sanchez has in mind is his re-election and staying in power.
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Europe@feddit.org•Putin’s plan for Europe is already written in black and whiteEnglish
9·3 days agoEverything what Putin does is black and white, he doesn’t even have the capacity to think in shades of grey.
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Europe@feddit.org•Moscow police detain over 200 people, reportedly forcing some to sign military contracts, including minors and womenEnglish
72·3 days agoThis Al Jazeera article is citing a single anonymous person with not a single verifiable piece of information, let alone whether or not this happens systematic.
It has long been a key disinformation strategy by Russia falsely claiming that Ukraine is forced to mobilise men by force on the streets.
In September 2026, a new wave of pro-Russian AI-generated videos was detected focusing in particular on the mobilization of Ukrainian soldiers to the front. Several videos and images show soldiers in handcuffs on buses, being forcibly taken away.
Amongst others, these fake videos also appeared on Facebook, but this pro-Russian propaganda.
Also this fall, Russia turns to AI to push fakes about ‘women’s draft’ in Ukraine.
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Europe@feddit.org•Europe’s “neocolonial” green hydrogen could keep Tunisia’s worst polluter aliveEnglish
91·3 days agoThis is another sensationalist headline with poor quality. This issue isn’t limited to Tunisia but spans across many other countries. Also, Europe is not the only player in this industry.
In principle, Tunisia is well-positioned to export renewable energy to Europe through its ELMED interconnector, a submarine power cable between Tunisia and Italy. The problems are that Tunisia still imports a considerable amount of its energy while at the same time suffering from growing public debt pressures. There is a fundamental contradiction: while local conditions still exist, investment flows to infrastructure geared towards external customers. The costs of transition remain local, while many benefits flow globally.
Another problem is the fragmented global system as the European Union is no longer the only actor attempting to shape hydrogen governance:
The United States, Japan, and China are each developing their own hydrogen frameworks with different definitions, technologies, and industrial priorities … This does not create a coherent global hydrogen system … Producer countries now face conflicting demands from different importing powers. A project using Chinese electrolysers may face barriers in Europe, while projects designed around EU certification standards may become more expensive elsewhere.
The costs of this fragmentation fall disproportionately on developing producer countries. Industrial powers possess the capacity to set standards and protect domestic industries. Most exporters do not. This creates a governance asymmetry where industrial powers write the rules while producer nations absorb the compliance costs.
It is noteworthy that Tunisia, a country that is part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) that has been facing a growing trade deficit with China, has been the target of several Chinese companies across many industries. In green hydrogen, companies such as PowerChina, China Sinoma International Engineering, and Goldwind, are known to be pursuing opportunities in Tunisia’s also in green hydrogen sector in recent years.
The entire issue is much more complex than this sensational hit piece makes one believe imo.
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Europe@feddit.org•Just like cars, Chinese motorcycles out to conquer EuropeEnglish
5·4 days agoThe one billion in imports are a small fraction (a low single-digit percentage) of the overall European market.
Rising imports into Europe are possible because of an open market economy, while the European motorcycle industry has been experiencing major hurdles when it comes to sell their product to Asia due to market protection measures.
The same report cited in the article also says:
Trade barriers remain a key constraint [for European motorcycle companies]. Import tariffs in major Asian markets—such as China, India, and Thailand—are significantly higher than in the EU and often non-reciprocal, limiting export opportunities … Reducing these barriers and ensuring more predictable and reciprocal trade conditions would enhance EU competitiveness, support more balanced trade, and strengthen the industry’s resilience.
Despite these export barriers artificially created by countries like China, around half of Europe’s production gets exported.
Conclusion: It’s another misleading headline descending into another Chinese propaganda slop.
[Edit typo.]
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Europe@feddit.org•French far left enshrines leaving NATO in official presidential platformEnglish
158·4 days agoYeah, the far left (along with the far right) is fully in line with its headquarters in Beijing and Moscow …
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Europe@feddit.org•BMW warns on profits as it counts cost of plan for 8,000 job cutsEnglish
11·4 days agoYour comments make really no sense, and many claims are outright false as I have said already. But you’re repeating the same false “China good, the West bad” narrative over and again.
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Europe@feddit.org•German carmakers hit a dead end as China drives pastEnglish
3·4 days agoEV sales have risen sharply over the last year again in Germany as well as in Europe, and the best-selling EV models in Europe come from Czech manufacturer Skoda, German manufacturers Volkswagen, BMW, Mercedes, and Tesla. Among the top-10 EVs in Germany, there are no Chinese brands. Yet the propaganda tells you everyone is buying Chinese EVs in Europe.

















UK lawmakers demand a bolder China strategy, what you are doing is just deflection as you apparently don’t like the content. The disinformation is your comment. I end this discussion.