They don’t necessarily need to own and operate their own factories imho, but we need transparent supply chains and laws to hold the brands accountable what happens in these supply chains. China is likely the country most opposing to such transparent supply chains, India is another one.

“It’s the most humbling thing I’ve ever seen,” said Ford’s chief executive about his recent trip to China.

Report from June 2025: ‘The Most Humbling Thing I’ve Ever Seen’: Ford CEO On China’s Car Industry’

A few weeks ago I stumbled upon a similar report on soil contamination and health risk of toxic trace elements in soils surrounding rare earth tailings in China. It says that,

adults exhibited elevated health risks via oral ingestion [which] demonstrated that the median hazard index (HI) and carcinogenic risk (CR) values in five provinces surpassed safety thresholds … Sensitivity analyses identified daily soil intake and exposure duration were positively linked to health risks, with As, Ni, Cd, Cr, and Mn concentrations contributing substantially to cumulative risks.

I learned earlier that already ten years ago, in 2014, one fifth of China’s soil were found to be contaminated, according to official Chinese data.

What an absurdly weird take.

@Severus_Snape@lemmy.world

And what exactly has that to do with Canada’s official report(s) on election interference?

Here you can find the latest with all the links: Government of Canada Publishes Election Security and Integrity Reports Covering the 45th General Election

There is much more on the official site. Among others, it reads:

Furthermore, in previously noted behaviours, the PRC has been observed engaging in transnational repression activities, which involve a range of tactics designed to exert influence and control beyond its borders. These tactics include leveraging PRC-based relatives and other connections to pressure those in Canada to refrain from adopting views the PRC sees as hostile, or to return to the PRC, and threatening PRC-based family members with an array of potential coercive actions, including detention or financial penalties.

@bacon_pdp@lemmy.world

To avoid collisions?

Did you read even the paraphrased summary?

“They can jam, blind, manipulate, or kinetically disrupt satellites”

Even if you assume the data is accurate, you can’t infer from your picture that Chinese workers benefit more from productivity gains than workers elsewhere. For such an inference you needed more and other data.

Your picture proves nothing.

Gini is only one metric. Even if we assume the data is correct, it is not better than in Europe or Western democracies. But many experts don’t believe these numbers. Gini is based on official data provided by the Chinese government, hence not very reliable.

Social inequity in China is also higher by all comparitive standards. And Chinese workers’ rights, women’s rights, rights of minorities (essentially all other than Han- Chinese) are much weaker than in the West.

Given some numbers I’ve seen, so far they have done better in this regard.

Which numbers are that?

What is the ‘evil’?

Quick reminder what caused the protests that have been going on in Serbia since November 2024.

Three weeks ago, six people, including a former Serbian minister, were arrested on Friday over their involvement in reconstruction of a railway station in Serbia’s Novi Sad, whose roof collapsed last November killing 16 and triggering Serbia’s biggest anti-government protests in decades.

… The six are suspected of inflating invoices from a consortium of the two Chinese companies - China Railway International Co and China Communications Construction Co - who were given the task of reconstructing both the railway station at Novi Sad and tracks, the [official] statement said.

They are suspected of damaging the state budget by $115.6 million, the statement said, and also said that by inflating invoices the Chinese consortium benefited by $18.8 million, but gave no further details …

Yeah, I get your point, but there is also ‘good’ cotton. Hard to find and evaluate for us consumers, though. We need transparent supply chains I would say.