On paper, the recent EU-China auto deal looks like a compromise Europe needed. In reality, it is a big mistake: short-term relief for European automakers versus long-term market dominance for China.
The EU protects the hybride car market in Europe in essence protecting the ‘old’ combustible engine technology at the same not incentivizing EU car makers to go all in on Electrical Vehicles.
The future however is 100% electric, and this is where the EU car makers will lose out as they remain stuck in their old ways.
This deal shows the pressure the EU is under to get short-term relief, while at the same time not thinking about the long-term consequences.
In essence they EU has no China strategy
Plenty of data centres, coal factories, steel production, semiconductors etc etc in China which produce unbelievable amounts of CO2 and waste. But yes, data centres are for sure part of the picture and will probably suck up all the electricity and triple electricity prices
Meanwhile in reality China is leading the largest adoption of green energy in history and is the only nation making progress on fusion while Europeans rush to double down on increasingly scarce fossil fuels from USA at extortion prices
And human rights. And surveillance. And Tibet.
Very sincere question. Do human rights include poverty eradication (saving an unknowable number of lives), aggressive attempts to control the spread of covid (saving an unknowable number of lives), and removing the political power of Tibet’s reactionary clergy (saving an unknowable number of lives)? Or is this all negated because China has to have a surveillance state to prevent all of this from being undone? In your very informed opinion, what was the plausible alternative course of action that the workers of China should have taken?
The origins of covid-19 in wuhan will never be known as they have refused an enquiry
actually it’s from fort detrick
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/feb/10/tibet-china-feudalism
Ok.
No worries, glad to have informed you of the facts that are often entirely absent from western discussion around Tibet
Very helpful. We live in interesting times
The global majority has an excellent treatment from criminals like you, 8g of lead taken at 740m/s
Which country is mine? Any democratic free nation?
the usa, and no
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Why do you keep copy pasting this comment? You kinda sound like a bot.
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DeMoCrAcY
Destroying the biosphere to own CHYNAH, you are absolutely cooked
No thanks
Where do you think all your shit gets manufactured?
lemmy.zip again, see that?
edit: its (a pronoun i use confidently here) interactions lead me to the conclusion it either literally a bot or is trying as hard as possible to be one
Artificially keeping the currency low and subsidising cars by the billions
Oh boy wait till you hear about fiat currency.
I want to be free
Ok.
Do your research comrade.
But you still buy everything from China anyway, you have no morals
I dont.
Show me a product you have purchased in the last 10 years that has no components made in china.
McDonald’s
Almost all of the industrial kitchen equipment used in fast food restaurants is made in China.
You’re not just racist you’re a fucking idiot.
(i meant the news of them hacking australian government websites for fun. something which anonymous red state is yet to do)
but i more meant to elucidate your fears of electricity exclusive future, you can make perfectly fine grid without blackouts fears, it doesn’t need to be centralized, plugged into internet or any such thing, if one were to design it system wide to be resilient to such nonsense.
it is a rather bad idea due to other concerns, namely mining extraction, frequently by european companies as well as chinese, frequently in global south, frequently not very concerned with child labor or mining refuse.
but the first step answer rather is obvious: forbid advertising for cars including movies, have fun convincing germans of this. after all, hybrid vehicles eat same amount of copper as full evs, cause the motors are the same
I would be more worried about the huge amount of data being collected by brands including BYD.
aren’t you worried by huge amounts of data being collected by windows pc and google? you know, actual thoughts and dreams of people rather than their commute
Sure but its not being used by the govt for foreign interference
yes it is
you love it stop pretending
Yes I love being surveilled by foreign interference country. Very good for us
i wonder what happens when you reply to banned accounts