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  • Reel politik: India tells filmmakers to drop ‘China-bashing’ as ties warm

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  • Would you accept RT, Xinhua, or some Nazi medium as a source here just because there is a report that is 'true'? Should we normalize authoritarian propaganda because there is an article once in a while that is true?

  • Reel politik: India tells filmmakers to drop ‘China-bashing’ as ties warm

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  • I think that the one and only goal of the South China Morning Post is to normalize authoritarian, anti-democratic propaganda. Such 'sources' should be banned, as they are no reliable media by definition. We shouldn't accept 'media' published by some Nazi party either (I hope we agree in this point). So that's basically the same thing.

  • Reel politik: India tells filmmakers to drop ‘China-bashing’ as ties warm

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  • This is propaganda crap.

  • Reel politik: India tells filmmakers to drop ‘China-bashing’ as ties warm

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  • No one needs this crap for a 'holistic understanding'. What you are doing is justifying extremist and violent propaganda.

  • NASA outlines plans for new moon base, relying on private contractors

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  • In the BBC you can read articles critical of Keir Starmer, the UK government, or any other official body in the UK and the entire world.

    The SCMP never publishes articles critical of Xi Jinping, the Chinese Communist Party, or anything that doesn't shine the CCP in a positive light.

    This is why the SCMP is a just a mouthpiece of the Chinese government.

  • Reel politik: India tells filmmakers to drop ‘China-bashing’ as ties warm

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  • I think that the one and only goal of the South China Morning Post is normalize authoritarian, anti-democratic propaganda.

  • Ukraine @sopuli.xyz
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    OSINT project Oryx puts Russia’s confirmed losses in Ukraine at 4,390 tanks and 6,429 IFVs, with list maxing out storage on Blogger platform

    theins.press /en/news/292986
  • World News @quokk.au
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    Russia’s unpaid wages jumped by one‑third in April. State media have been ordered to keep quiet

    meduza.io /en/news/2026/05/27/russia-s-unpaid-wages-jumped-by-one-third-in-april-state-media-have-been-ordered-to-keep-quiet
  • World News @quokk.au
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    Norway becomes ninth country to come under French nuclear deterrence scheme

    www.france24.com /en/europe/20260527-norway-becomes-ninth-country-to-come-under-french-nuclear-umbrella

  • Russia Accelerates Military Draft Orders to Boost Troops by Tens of Thousands

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  • Russian Soldiers Try to Get Imprisoned to Avoid Going to the Front Line

    Russian deserters are seeking imprisonment rather than returning to the front line to continue fighting.

    This is reported in an article by the Russian publication “Mediazona”.

    The article details the practice whereby Russian servicemen deliberately seek criminal prosecution to avoid being sent back to the war against Ukraine.

    A key factor is Vladimir Putin’s Decree No. 647 on “partial” mobilization, signed in September 2022, which left only three grounds for discharge from service: reaching the age of 65, health conditions, or imprisonment following a court sentence.

    Because of this, some Russian soldiers began to view imprisonment as the only realistic way to leave the army, especially after participating in assault operations with heavy casualties and, according to them, brutal treatment by the command ...

  • Reel politik: India tells filmmakers to drop ‘China-bashing’ as ties warm

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  • The South China Morning Post is a propaganda medium under the Chinese Communist Party's direct censorship regime. This is not a credible source.

  • NASA outlines plans for new moon base, relying on private contractors

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  • Can we please agree to not use the SCMP and other propaganda media?

  • China’s new carbon metrics ‘erased half’ of emissions growth reported from 2020 to 2025, report says

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  • This makes no sense and is only a distraction. China is not creating a new measure, they are apparently lying.

  • China’s new carbon metrics ‘erased half’ of emissions growth reported from 2020 to 2025, report says

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  • No, that has absolutely nothing to do with it. China just erased data.

    Food and energy is excluded from core inflation or core indices because prices for commodities like oil, gas, and the like are highly volatile, and food prices have a high correlation with these commodity prices. This would make core data less meaningful which is why food and energy is measured in own indices. So nothing is hidden here.

    But China just excluded the data that it has measured itself before.

    [Edit for clarity.]

  • World News @quokk.au
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    Ukrainian journalist Roshchyna suffered skull fracture, systematic torture in Russian captivity

    hromadske.ua /en/society/264783-viktoriyi-roshchyniy-v-sizo-zlamaly-potylychnu-kistku-natspolitsiia
  • Ukraine @sopuli.xyz
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    Ukrainian journalist Roshchyna suffered skull fracture, systematic torture in Russian captivity

    hromadske.ua /en/society/264783-viktoriyi-roshchyniy-v-sizo-zlamaly-potylychnu-kistku-natspolitsiia

  • China’s new carbon metrics ‘erased half’ of emissions growth reported from 2020 to 2025, report says

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  • Nah, Trump has been on his anti-climate crusade quiet openly since he took office. The US under Trump withdrew from the Paris Agreement and dozens of other international organizations. China under Xi Jinping speaks in a soft tone of the country's climate responsibilities, only to then backtrack on climate change very much the same way as Trump does. It's a different path, same result.

  • China @sopuli.xyz
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    China’s new carbon metrics ‘erased half’ of emissions growth reported from 2020 to 2025, report says

    wiky.com /2026/05/27/chinas-new-carbon-metrics-erased-half-of-emissions-growth-reported-from-2020-to-2025-report-says/
  • Climate @slrpnk.net
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    China’s new carbon metrics ‘erased half’ of emissions growth reported from 2020 to 2025, report says

    wiky.com /2026/05/27/chinas-new-carbon-metrics-erased-half-of-emissions-growth-reported-from-2020-to-2025-report-says/
  • World News @quokk.au
    Sepia @mander.xyz

    China’s new carbon metrics ‘erased half’ of emissions growth reported from 2020 to 2025, report says

    wiky.com /2026/05/27/chinas-new-carbon-metrics-erased-half-of-emissions-growth-reported-from-2020-to-2025-report-says/
  • Climate Crisis, Biosphere & Societal Collapse @sopuli.xyz
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    China’s new carbon metrics ‘erased half’ of emissions growth reported from 2020 to 2025, report says

    wiky.com /2026/05/27/chinas-new-carbon-metrics-erased-half-of-emissions-growth-reported-from-2020-to-2025-report-says/

  • France and allies call for EU trade defence tool to fend off China

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  • Yes, the 'de-risking' from US tech has been going on for some time. Regarding trade, however, China is the much bigger issue. The EU has face a rising trade deficit with China due to imported products made under non-transparent decisions in Chinese supply chains and protectionism by China that goes far beyond subsidies.

  • Sri Lanka in talks to buy fuel from China and Russia, minister says

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  • They also buy from Xi,

  • Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery

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  • This is great and long overdue. But the Pope remains silent about modern slavery in China, where the crackdown on the Catholic church and other religions deepens, and he refuses to comment on the conviction of Jimmy Lai, the catholic pro-democracy activist and publisher wrongfully detained in Hong Kong.

  • Pakistani, Chinese companies sign $1.22 billion deals at conference

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  • I am not sure whether it's more Pakistan that will find out that China is an unreliable investor. Beijing's big promise was the so-called China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), accounced in 2013 as a flagship project of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) It sought to group together several infrastructure projects including energy projects, industrial parks, and transportation networks.

    But delayed projects, cost overruns, and allegations of opaque contracts have soon eroded CPEC's viability, while Pakistan owed billions to Chinese companies for projects that have been delayed or canceled altogether. By 2019, Pakistan was forced to seek a debt bailout with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to address its debt crisis. The country eventually secured a 37-month, $7 billion (IMF) bailout package to avoid bankruptcy.

    At the same time China - to whom Pakistan owes a fifth of its foreign debt which, more than to any other country -, offered only a debt reprofiling (this differs from debt restructuring in that the overall debt amount is not cut as only the due date for repayment is extended).

    Analysts have long been warning about Pakistan's deepening strategic reliance on China,

    China has deeply penetrated Pakistan’s economic, infrastructure, energy, and security sectors, leaving Pakistan with limited space to make independent choices ...

    Pakistan's trade deficit has been increasing in the first 10 months of Pakistan's fiscal year 2025/2026, largely due to reduced shipments to China.

  • Germany's 'rapid militarization' threatens basic rights

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  • Four killed, 35 children wounded in Ukrainian attack on Luhansk region

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  • Not that the article is credible, but to add the latest news on it:

    Kyiv dismisses Russia’s claim that Ukrainian forces bombed a college in occupied Luhansk

    Ukraine’s General Staff has dismissed Russian claims that Ukrainian forces struck civilian infrastructure in Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine as “manipulative" ... The General Staff confirmed that on May 22, Ukrainian forces struck a number of Russian targets: an oil refinery, ammunition depots, air defense systems, and command posts, among them “one of the headquarters of the Rubikon unit” near Starobilsk ...

  • The Coming Crisis in Russia’s Political Economy

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  • The paper makes a lot of good points (here is the pdf version).

    The price of labour is the wage rate. In the absence of forced mobilisation, the [Russian] state must offer very high pay to induce civilians to risk an early and violent death. It must also attract them to work in military enterprises to raise war production. In some regions, the army and the defence industry thus compete to attract a diminished labour force. The resulting wage growth, in excess of any productivity gains, is another source of inflation –and helps keep the interest rates high as an anti-inflationary measure. And China’s price-gouging of Russia means these goods are far more expensive than domestically produced goods would be, or than imported ones were before the imposition of Western sanctions.

    This and many other points form a very convincing argument against the economic policy pursued by Russia's defense minister Andrei Belousov, a trained economist who is what is called a 'military Keynesian" (Military Keynesianism is an economic policy that claims that the government should raise military spending to boost economic growth).

    I also like the conclusion that Russia will face financial crisis, not output collapse, a prediction many economists have made soon after the war broke out.

    [Edit typo.]