Yeah, the entire article doesn’t seem to make sense. The citation provided in the body of the text fits perfectly into OP’s desired narrative which they spread relentlessly (mostly using the same sources). What we see in their post history is extremist anti-Bibi propaganda fighting extremist pro-Bibi propaganda, one bs fighting another, but not much information.

It happened before, as @impolitecarry@lemmy.wtf already posted, but it makes a good headline for OP’s propaganda push.

As the article also says:

Environmental groups warn that increasing numbers of ships transiting the shorter NSR could accelerate the loss of Arctic sea ice—already made vulnerable by rising global temperatures.

Major shipping companies, including France’s CMA CGM, Switzerland-headquartered MSC and Germany-based Hapag-Lloyd, have pledged to “avoid Arctic transshipment routes.”

But analysts say the Arctic could serve as an important future trade route, particularly for China, which has outlined plans for greater access to the region through a “Polar Silk Road.”

So the Western capitalists avoid the route to protect the Arctic, but “socialism with Chinese characteristics” pursues other plans. It’s another reason not to buy certain stuff in my humble opinion.

The way how this is framed is an attempt to normalize such a regime.

It just fits to your pro-China propaganda stance. China is Afghanistan’s largest foreign investor, not in the least as Beijing depends on the stability in the region for its so-called Belt and Road Initiative. A crisis or political instability could threaten this initiative as well as China–Pakistan Economic Corridor.

The linked article is an attempt to downplay the Taliban’s atrocities, while downplaying severe human rights violations that can’t be denied by framing them as things the regime “failed to achieve”. This is a slap in the face to the people in Afghanistan.

This is rubbish. The Taliban are among the worst regimes in history.

Sorry. I mistakenly inserted the wrong link, but now it’s fixed. Sorry.

In 2023, after the EU imposed sanctions on Rossotrudnichestvo, the Russian organization that runs Russian Houses in 71 countries.

Following the sanctions, the Berlin public prosecutor’s office launched a criminal probe to determine whether Russian House’s activities violated the German Foreign Trade and Payments Act, as several reports such as the one by the Kyiv Independent says,

But prosecutors were forced to close the investigation into Pavel Izvolsky, Berlin’s Russian House director - because he had diplomatic immunity …

It’s a common practice for the heads of the Russian Houses to be employed at the Russian embassy. Their deputies can also be diplomats, according to the agreements with Moldova, Germany, and the U.S.

That means diplomatic immunity protects them from arrest and prosecution in the host country.

Therefore, despite European Union sanctions against their parent entity, Russian House continues its activities in Brussels, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Madrid, Luxemburg, Vienna, Prague, Warsaw, Budapest, Chisinau, Bratislava, and other capitals.

It’s time that the EU wakes up and closes these institutions.

The United ​States urged the European Union on Friday to ease its laws putting responsibility on large firms for the ‌environmental and social impact of their global supply chains …

The U.S. aligns (again) with China.

Yeah, rockets explode once in a while. But there are so many similar incidents in Europe related to the support for Ukraine that it’s hard to believe they are accidents.

Yeah, I think we can say that’s a lot.

Russia had planned a budget deficit of 3.8 trillion roubles for the entire year 2026.

But in January 2026 alone, the Kremlin posted already a deficit of 1.7 trillion roubles, nearly half of its full-year target, according to Russia’s Finance Ministry.

Wait until you hear how German carmakers’ competitors from China treat their workers in a mix of exploiting a 996 work culture and slavery. It’s just not reported.

Russia’ low debt-to-GDP ratio is low mainly due to historically high revenue by fossil fuel exports particularly in the 2000s, when the ratio remained even in the single-digit numbers. But the Kremlin didn’t invest its wealth for the benefit of the country and its people. There has been a high infrastructure gap in Russia compared to other middle-income countries even before the war, and social welfare and healthcare are lagging far behind of any modern standards.

Russia had favourable fiscal conditions, but the government redirected its pubic wealth to a few private individuals close to the ruling elite rather than to its people. Today, income inequality in Russia is even higher than in the U.S. and China. And the war in Ukraine has made the situation worse.

… depending on the qualifications of their employees, a third to half of companies expect salaries to remain stable. “From the point of view of many companies, artificial intelligence will not affect salaries equally for all employees,” says ifo researcher Anna Ruffert.

“They are most likely to expect salaries to fall for less experienced workers.” Service providers most frequently expect salaries to fall for their workers.

For employees with a (technical) university degree, there is hardly any change in the expectations regarding a pay cut. However, they have the chance more often to see an increase in their salary, especially in conjunction with more work experience.

It’s a bit more nuanced, but the headline fits good into OP (and feddit.org’s) propaganda drive.

In this case, the issue is clearly about ethnic Chinese targeting their own citizens.

And it’s even worse as has been known for some time, as the rise of Chinese organized crime in the West highlights its ties to the Chinese state,

… As the regime of President Xi Jinping expands its international power, it has intensified its alliance with Chinese organized crime overseas. [Investigations in multiple countries] show the underworld’s front-line role in a campaign to infiltrate the West, amass wealth and influence, and control diaspora communities as if they were colonies of Beijing’s police state.

… Around the world, China’s shadow war of espionage, long-distance repression, political interference and predatory capitalism is drawing attention and alarm. Governments and human rights groups have denounced … a global network of covert Chinese police stations that spy on Chinese migrant communities and persecute dissidents — wherever they live … The Chinese state has sent illegal undercover teams to chase down fugitives in wealthy U.S. suburbs, surveilled and silenced Chinese students on foreign campuses, and allegedly supported the Chinese money laundering underworld that fortifies cartels inundating the Americas with deadly drugs …

… The partnership [between the Chinese state and the Chinese mafia] appears to mix geopolitics and corruption for mutual benefit. Gangsters help monitor and intimidate immigrant communities for the regime in Beijing, sometimes as leaders of cultural associations that are key players in China’s political influence operations and long-distance repression, Western security officials say. ProPublica has learned that suspected underworld figures in Italy and Spain took part in launching several of the secret Chinese police stations that caused an uproar when their existence became public last year …

Yes, I know. But this US company controls only the US operations, it has nothing to do with Poland or Tiktok’s other businesses.

What does that mean?

Paywalled.

I don’t say we can’t improve government in the West. There’s a lot wrong. What I say is that China and Russia are using justified critique not to improve the system but to destroy it.

These migrants didn’t cross the border, they came through self-made tunnels. It is impossible that authorities in Belarus weren’t aware of that. What is described in the article has nothing to do with migration, this is a deliberate act to destabilize Western countries.

Wealth inequality has also lead to messed up economy where large companies can (and have) bought up media, where they can focus the less wealthy on unimportant topics like these.

Again, there is much to improve. But we in the West have ore equality, we have less concentration of money and power, and more media freedom than in Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and most other countries.

These people who tried to enter the EU via a tunnel aren’t migrants, they are pawns in an evil game played by Lukashenko.

The article is about Belarus - potentially at Russia’s order - trying to destabilize the West.

Inequality in Europe is much lower than in other regions and countries. I don’t reject migration (especially as I live in a country that isn’t my own), but this here is another issue. Russia, China, and other countries (where no one wants to flee, btw) are using this to destabilize Western democracies.

Europe needs a different migration policy, but on its own terms. Malign states are using migration to sow division and incite hatred among democratic societies, in parts by using far-right parties like Germany’s AfD - which are supported, again, by states like Russia and China.

So what has that to do with the fact that Russia lures Peruvians to its military and sent them to the meat grinder?

A $20,000 “welcome bonus” that was never paid: how a Colombia-registered recruiter sent Peruvians into Russia’s war

… First, recruiters promise foreigners high salaries, signing bonuses, and “rear” or civilian positions. Debt traps and threats of deportation are also used. They lure people even through video games and chats. Once in Russia, recruits are forced to sign contracts, after which their documents are confiscated to keep them at the front. The contracts are often written in Russian, a language the foreign recruit does not understand …