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Came here to say the say thing. Lol. I thought this post was about he IDF at first.
@Randomgal@lemmy.ca and @piyuv@lemmy.world , such comments in this context -not only, but also the ‘lol’ here- are absolutely repugnant.
Ich frage mich, ob es jetzt irgendwas an den Plänen Deutschlands, der EU oder anderer Staaten und Unternehmen ändert, die sich weitgehend auf Microsoft oder Cloud-Lösungen anderer Anbieter verlassen?
Deutschlands Bundeskanzler Scholz dazu laut Marketscreener:
“Es wird von den Sicherheitsinstitutionen Deutschlands in enger Abstimmung mit denen vieler anderer Länder der Welt dazu etwas gesagt werden”, sagte Scholz […]. “Da kann man auch beruhigt drauf warten.” Er selbst habe derzeit “nichts Aktuelles” zu den Problemen zu sagen.
The shady backdoor deals mentioned by@poVoq emerged in court just yesterday:
General Court slams Commission for lack of transparency over COVID vaccines contracts - (archived link)
Now she is talking about e-fuels …
Ein wichtiger Grund könnte darin liegen, dass China vor allem am Machterhalt Putins interessiert ist. Weniger wegen Putin selbst, sondern weil ein eventueller Nachfolger unter Umständen offener gegenüber einer Kooperation mit dem Westen sein und vielleicht sogar demokratische Reformen in Russland einführen könnte. Die chinesische Regierung ist nicht gerade ein Freund der europäischen Einheit, und schon gar nicht von Demokratie.
Ein anderer Grund mag sein, dass ein geschwächtes und von China abhängiges Russland wenig Spielraum hat, wenn Peking Gebietsansprüche stellt. China plant u.a. eine Art “Antarktische Seidenstrasse”. Der Klimawandel wird in absehbarer Zeit den Warenhandel auf Schiffen im arktischen Meer möglich machen, und das ist dann allemal schneller als die heutige Route durch den Indischen Ozean und das Rote Meer. Damit China da mitspielen kann, braucht es aber Zugang zur Arktis, also zumindest einen Teil von Sibirien, dass heute russisches Staatsgebiet ist.
Das ist aber nur meine Meinung.
https://feddit.org/u/sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz, thanks for this. I added an archived version now.
No, you cannot walk around freely. This exactly is the point. There is no full supply chain transparency. Company executives and auditors say that, human rights experts, even some politicians who visited the country. Audits are just based on interviews, and these are useless, as even if workers would be aware of human rights violations, they cannot say that in an interview. This is said by those who have been there and conducted the audits. Read the sources.
At the start of this years, the Chinese government itself has -once again- openly rejected critical calls for human-rights reforms at the U.N. meeting, just to name another example, including a call for an end to persecutions of Uyghurs. It also rejected all recommendations calling on the government to end reprisals against individuals engaging with the international human rights system, even a message of disdain on the ten-year anniversary of the death of Cao Shunli in detention, a former Chinese human rights defender taken into custody on her way to Geneva for China’s 2014 UPR (Universal Periodical Review).
Prior to the U.N. meeting this year, China had even lobbied non-Western countries to praise its record by asking them to make “constructive recommendations”, which were essentially bland questions, make vague recommendations, and use their platform to praise the Chinese government’s rights record. And China has been blocking any domestic civil society groups from participating in the preparation of the state report or from making contributions to the review by the U.N. for decades, very much as it does with supply chain audits.
And, again, these additional examples are a VERY TINY sample of what is evident.
What a rubbish. Even Turkey, a country whose government is not exactly a role model for democracy itself, has long called out China’s treatment of its Muslim ethnic Uighur minority “a great cause of shame for humanity”. Volkswagen closed its Xinjiang-plant it ran with joint venture partner SAIC as “no full supply chain transparency exists”.
Markus Löning, Germany’s former commissioner for human rights who oversaw an audit on forced labour for Volkswagen last year (this the one report that is often cited in this ignorant communities where wumaos and ziganwus have given up their own personal developments just for parroting propaganda that is out of touch with world) conceded that the basis for the audit had been a review of documentation rather than interviews with workers, which he said could be “dangerous.” He also said that “even if they [workers] would be aware of something, they cannot say that in an interview.” And when asked about potential links between SAIC-Volkswagen and an aluminum producer in Xinjiang, Volkswagen responded: “We have no transparency about the supplier relationships of the non-controlled shareholding SAIC-Volkswagen.”
In addition, there are numerous Uyguhr people who survived the so-called ‘re-education camps’ who spoke out. A 10 seconds search has found this and that.
This is a VERY TINY sample of what’s wrong with Chinese supply chains and the country’s stance against human rights, and it’s no limited to cars but spans practically all industry sectors. There is ample evidence.