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.

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.

There is a community here on Lemmy that tries to normalize biased media that favour China and other autocratic systems.

I don’t support this German move, but in addition to the end to phone-based sick notes, the German government introduced another 33 measures, including a €10 billion in income tax relief targeted at lower and middle-income earners. But Novara Media takes a single measure out of 34. This is a textbook case of selection bias.

There is nothing wrong with critique, but there are good sources that explain the entire German package in more depth, and many of them are easier accessible as they aren’t hiding behind Cloudflare as Novara Media does if I may say so.

This is bad, but Novara Media is using such news while at the same time hailing China for its policies, although Chinese social welfare and labour conditions are far behind Germany’s or anywhere else in Western democracies. This is a highly biased anti-democratic medium in my opinion.

Honestly, if this were a report not on China but, say, on Europe, the US or Australia, would you say the same? Would you say that ‘they care’ and ‘are tackling it’?

From the report:

Given that Chinese authorities often censor information, restrict independent investigations, fail to comprehensively document or publicly disclose child labor data, and punish people for reporting problems, the true magnitude of these violations may be considerably greater.

Yeah, China has a long tradition in ‘supporting’ Sudan and its government (Sudan was the first African country to recognize the People’s Republic of China in 1959). In the 2000s Beijing even sent weapons during the Darfur crisis, as one report back then says (opens pdf):

The genocide in Darfur is not an unknown problem to those in power in China. However, it is clear the Chinese government will do whatever it takes to support and maintain China’s economic growth. Because the Chinese government is focused on this one goal, it is more willing to turn a blind eye to corruption and oppression within the Sudanese regime.