Brazil sues China carmaker BYD over ‘slave-like’ conditions

Brazilian prosecutors are suing Chinese electric vehicle (EV) giant BYD and two of its contractors, saying they were responsible for human trafficking and conditions “analogous to slavery” at a factory construction site in the country.

Did coerced labour build your car?

Thousands of cars ship out of factories every day. But at the other end of the production line, workers are shipped in – thousands of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and Kyrgyz every year – from Xinjiang, the western region at the centre of a long-running human rights crisis.

Moved as part of a labour transfer scheme that experts call forced labour, these ethnic minorities are coercively recruited by the Chinese state to travel thousands of miles and fill the manufacturing jobs that recent Chinese graduates have spurned. An investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has found more than 100 brands whose products have been made, in part or whole, by workers moved under this system.

Your comment is blatant propaganda. No one hates China, and this critique comes from Chinese experts within the country.

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Some insights about this:

How Chinese state-owned Media Unlocked - [a program by state-run media outlet China Daily] targets AFP, DND

[Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief General Romeo] Brawner and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. slammed the Media Unlocked video for “twisting” narratives and portraying the Philippines and its officials in a negative light.

Media Unlocked didn’t stop there.

On Thursday, June 5, it released a video targeting Teodoro this time, blaming the Philippine defense chief for labeling its hosts as “spies.” China did not send an official delegation to the Shangri-La Dialogue, and instead sent what Teodoro called “pretend journalists.” […]

This is the latest in China’s moves to spread propaganda attacking Filipino officials and figures who are critical of Chinese aggression in the South China Sea and West Philippine Sea.[…]

An OCTA Research survey from March 2024 found that an overwhelming 91% of adult Filipinos distrust China. Ahead of the 2025 midterm election, a Social Weather Stations survey from March this year found that 78% of Filipinos prefer candidates “who believe in asserting the Philippines’ rights against China’s aggression in the West Philippine Sea.”

In a video shared by the AFP’s Facebook page, Teodoro and Brawner discussed their respective encounters with the Media Unlocked hosts, and pushed back against the “misleading and malicious narrative” they circulated. The video has over 738,000 views and over 10,000 shares as of writing.

For me, it looks like the Chinese government is attempting to protect their citizens’ data and information through government actions and trust.

This is exactly what China propagates - trust.

One thing that I personally find puzzling is the difference how things like that are framed when it comes to actions by the Chinese government and some Western governments or blocs like the EU. If, say, the EU seeks to introduce the so-called ‘chat control’ people are (rightfully) criticizing it as surveillance, Orwellian dystopia, and things like that. If China does it, it is to ‘protect’ people who ‘trust’ their government. What makes that really strange is that such “the West bad, China bad okay” frames are echoed often by non-Chinese people who know China at best as tourists. (I explicitly do not refer to your post here as I assume you commented in good faith, but in general this is what I observe.)

There is a good documentary about China’s surveillance state and the ‘trust’ the governments propagates in this context. Maybe you can manage to watch (highly recommended).

Total Trust

Total Trust is an eye-opening and deeply disturbing story of surveillance technology, abuse of power and (self-)censorship that confronts us with what can happen when our privacy is ignored. Through the haunting stories of people in China who have been monitored, intimidated and even tortured, the film tells of the dangers of technology in the hands of unbridled power. Taking China as a mirror, Total Trust sounds an alarm about the increasing use of surveillance tools around the world – even by democratic governments like those in Europe. If this is the present, what is our future?

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LWD@lemm.ee

What an absurdly bad conclusion.

Profit mag vielleicht auch ein Motiv des Herrn Kretschmer sein, aber es ist vielleicht nicht das einzige.

Kretschmer fordert anderen Umgang mit Russland: Sachsens Regierungschef schlägt Nord Stream als Verhandlungsmasse vor

… „Nord Stream ist eine mögliche Eröffnung für ein Gespräch mit Russland“, behauptet Kretschmer im Interview. Putin soll also durch die Aussicht gelockt werden, wieder mehr Gas nach Europa zu verkaufen – gleichzeitig verspricht sich der Ministerpräsident durch den Import des CO₂-intensiven Rohstoffs sinkende Energiepreise für deutsche Firmen. „Es würde unsere Situation schon sehr verbessern, wenn man etwa 20 Prozent des Gases aus Russland holt.“

Nach Kriegsbeginn im Februar 2022 drosselten die EU-Staaten ihre Gasimporte aus Russland. Sie machten 2024 aber immer noch einen Anteil von 19 Prozent aus. Bis Ende 2027 will die EU-Kommission den Kauf von russischem Gas vollständig verbieten – Kretschmers Vorschlag steht diesem Ziel entgegen …

Quick reminder that the Hong Kong National Security Law imposed by Beijing on 30 June 2020 is a breach of the Sino-British Joint Declaration, and a demonstration of China breaking its international commitments.

Addition:

Hong Kong’s Freedoms: What China Promised and How It’s Cracking Down – [Last update March 2024]

• Before the British government handed over Hong Kong in 1997, China agreed to allow the region considerable political autonomy for fifty years under a framework known as “one country, two systems.”
• In recent years, Beijing has cracked down on Hong Kong’s freedoms, stoking mass protests in the city and drawing international criticism.
• Beijing imposed a national security law in 2020 that gave it broad new powers to punish critics and silence dissenters, which has fundamentally altered life for Hong Kongers.

These are empty words. What exactly did he do?

If you just parrot propaganda, I won’t respond anymore.

What makes him an ‘enemy of the state’? What crime did he commit? There is absolutely nothing.

As a recent example, you may be interested to read on Australian who survived five years in a Chinese prison: ‘You start to go crazy’

Sharing a dirty cell with a dozen others, constant sleep deprivation, cells with lights on 24-hours a day; poor hygiene and forced labour. These are some of what prisoners in Chinese jails are subjected to, according to Australian citizen Matthew Radalj, who spent five years at the Beijing No 2 prison – a facility used for international inmates.

Addition:

Overview: Dealing with extraditions to China

This resource center by Safeguard Defenders, a rights group focused on China, uses an automated translation function to allow us to as wide an audience as possible. Currently, it is available in English (original), Arabic, Chinese (simplified), French, Spanish, and Russian. More languages will be added over time. When using translated versions for official purposes, please independently verify the accuracy of translations against the original language version or reach out to us for assistance.

They was fine with american products flooding their market and now they complains about chinese products?

This is not comparable as Chinese low-quality items are traded at a far higher volume. After the U.S. removed the de minimis-rule, for example, Air freight capacity between China and the U.S. dropped by almost a third.

Europe is now also planning to charge a €2 flat fee on small parcels from outside bloc:

In 2024, 4.6 billion such packages entered the EU - more than 145 per second - with 91% originating in China. The EU expects the numbers to rise.

[The EU’s trade chief Maros] Sefcovic said the figure represents a “completely new challenge to the control, to the safety, to making sure that the standards are properly checked of the products which are shipped to the European Union”.

Quick remainder that the reason for China’s sanctions were critical reports by MEPs on the Chinese Communist Party’s genocidal policy particularly in the Xinjiang region. As this is ongoing and hasn’t changed, there is no reason for the EU to lift its sanctions against China.

Currently, the Chinese individuals and organisations still blacklisted by the EU are:

• Zhu Hailun, former secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR)
• Wang Junzheng, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of XUAR
• Wang Mingshan, secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee -Chen Mingguo, vice-chairman of the government of the XUAR, and director of the XUAR Public Security Department
• The Public Security Bureau of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC)

Whataboutery

[…] Protesting at hypocrisy; responding to criticism by accusing one’s opponent of similar or worse faults […]

Downvote for whataboutery. Some argue here on Lemmy that slrpnk.net is the new lemmy.ml, it really seems they are right.

@WizardOfLoneliness

The U.S. spends ~3.4% of its GDP for military.

Quick reminder that it is Russia that started the war and invaded Ukraine, and that Russia officially spends 40% of its budget for military, that’s ~10% of its GDP (for comparison: the GDP rate in western Europe is around 2%).

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From your comment one can easily infer that you didn’t read more than the headline.

This is a list of words, these are not metrics.

they’re worst on almost every metric

Which metrics?

@LWD@lemm.ee

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