Oh, no, it’s also about toxic and unsafe products that threaten people’s health because they are offered by retailers that violate any safety and consumer regulation. This is why they have no license.

As Interpol says,

Counterfeit toys pose a significant risk to children, as they may contain hazardous materials and chemicals that can be toxic to children, and their poor build quality can lead to accidents and injuries.

Justice and accountability are not tokens for negotiation, say survivors in Ukraine

At the international conference hosted by Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI) in Kyiv on 26 November, survivors presented their Call to Action. These demands include:

• No amnesty for war crimes

• The immediate release of all those still in Russian captivity

• The inclusion of survivors of violations committed since 2014 in the Registry of Damages. Survivors also stress that the process for applying for compensation need to be flexible, accessible and survivor-centred

• The effective and prompt implementation of Law 4067 (Bardina Law)

The Bardina Law gives survivors of conflict-related sexual violence the right to urgent interim reparation. The law came to force in June 2025 but is yet to be implemented. The pilot project on Urgent Interim Reparations for conflict-related sexual violence survivors proves that the registration process can be inclusive, transparent, credible and survivor-centred.

And don’t forget that one in 10 rescued Ukrainian children sexually abused in the occupied territories.

It is important to note that Putin’s Russia broke some 400 agreements in the recent decade or so, that’s basically every he signed.

The operation is the second in two years and brings the number of counterfeit toys seized by authorities to almost 17m, most of them from China.

bUt It Is cHeAp.

If a war breaks out I would work also longer than 60 hours and if this propaganda parrot promises to never come back I pay for his one-way ticket to Moscow or Beijing.

Me too.

As early as 2012, one report wrote on Chinese Fascism’s Global Consequences:

It is increasingly clear that China is the most powerful, mature and internationally accepted fascist state in global history and its status as such should cause us all a great deal of concern.

Last year, under, China’s Turn to Fascist Rule, another analysis reads,

Under Xi Jinping, China meets all four hallmarks of what constitutes fascism – cult-like worship, hyper-nationalism, a merciless surveillance apparatus and the glorification of military strength.

There are many more.

do we(legally) need to protest against each new version over and over again?

Not a legal expert, but I am afraid that’s how it is …

You may wish to write your MEP(s):

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home

That’s a shame. It may also be important in this context that Chinese military was reportedly hosted at base in the UAE. The UAE and China have close military ties and held a joint air force drill in China’s Xinjiang region.

Financial Services firm Morningstar sees European defense stocks as undervalued after the recent overreaction to potential peace deal ignores the real drivers of demand.

The market reaction is overstated. European defense valuations are anchored in structural budget increases rather than short-term Ukraine revenue, and rearmament plans are unlikely to reverse even in the event of a peace agreement …

European governments’ long-term demand reflects inventory rebuilding, capability and platform scale-up, and autonomy from US support … to reach 3.5% of GDP on defense spending. These fundamentals remain intact and support order visibility, backlog conversion, and cash generation.

Ukraine procurement is marginal for most contractors. Germany is now the largest single supporter of Ukraine. Yet, Rheinmetall has only EUR 1.7 billion of Ukraine orders within an EUR 64-billion backlog, underscoring the sector’s long-run domestic and NATO-driven demand …

How do you make such an inference? This is a divisive rhetoric out of the blue that is echoing anti-democratic propaganda aimed at sowing division among society.

Aha …

Chinese robotaxi operator Pony.ai says one of its cars caught fire in Shanghai

Pony.ai Recalls Autonomous Driving Software After Crash in California

Europe needs to build that itself, as much as it needs to ‘re-industrialize.’ The safest and best place to produce things is in Europe as its environmental and social rules are more developed as elsewhere: https://feddit.uk/c/buyeuropean

Yeah, that’s certainly true. For Europe, however, the continent was rather regulating than building in the past. But it must do both. It’s also important to build a strong open source ecosystem in Europe imho. Relying on European Big Tech (Telecom, SAP, …) is insufficient. I am no sure whether all politicians have gotten this.

Addition: That’s basically what @[email protected] says in this thread. I fully agree with that.

Wow, what a strongly worded comment.

This is not bullying but legitimate critique. The state that is often bulling its neighbors is elsewhere.

Yeah, the world should rather hail the reasonable people of the governments who are refusing to exit from fossil fuels. These Europeans and their allies get it all wrong (s/, just to be safe).

Yeah, China, India, and some oil states refuse to end fossil fuels, but ‘Europe bad’ despite it does the opposite …

Exactly. There is no option for Europe other than developing its own technology. https://feddit.uk/c/buyeuropean

… late in the second week Colombia upstaged their hosts when it announced the creation of an initiative whereby a group of countries would meet to plan the phase out of fossil fuels. The 24-country bloc will meet next April in Santa Marta for a conference co-hosted by Colombia and the Netherlands. Other participating countries include Australia, Austria, Belgium, Cambodia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Luxembourg, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Micronesia, Nepal, Panama, Spain, Slovenia, Vanuatu and Tuvalu.

So basically it is Latin America, Europe, and Island Nations that take serious action to phase out fossil fuels.

The world’s two largest polluters - China and the U.S. - as well as Russia and some oil-producing countries in the Middle East are doing business as usual.

I mean all those who have said that China is leading in the fight against climate change shall now be silent. If you read the reports on the COP it is obvious that Beijing is interested in money and in money only.

The BBC wrote on Beijing;s pavillon at the COP 30 in Brazil that China ramps up charm offensive with extra pandas:

Was it the many copies of Xi Jinping’s speeches on sale? Or the ubiquitous cuddly pandas?

Perhaps it was the much-needed fans here for the heat and humidity outside. Whatever the reason, China’s pavilion here proved a huge draw, with long queues forming of people keen to get their hands on Chinese tat.

The pandas definitely seem to be part of the charm offensive from the world’s biggest emitter of planet-warming carbon.

Many expected China to take a bigger leadership role – but the world’s dominant producer of renewable technology has a different view.

China was content to sit quietly and support others who want to slow down the transition away from fossil fuels like India and Saudi Arabia. It is the world’s biggest coal producer after all.

Despite their current power and size, it seems to still suit China to play the role of the developing country that it was when the UN climate body was formed back in 1992. With extra pandas!

Thank you for your respectful and sophisticated opinion.

A similar case recently happened in Germany, where the country’s authorities face heavy criticism after admitting that a 56-year-old Uyghur asylum-seeker was mistakenly put on a plane to China instead of to Turkey.

According to reports (one is here), the woman, Reziwanguli Baikeli, had fled China’s Xinjiang region in 2017, lived in Turkey for several years and joined her daughter in Germany in 2024. Uyghurs are recognised by Germany as a group at extreme risk of persecution; informal guidance says they should not be returned to China.

Experts call for Germany (and possibly the whole of Europe) for a federal “white list” of countries to which deportations are categorically barred, similar to policies already used in Sweden and the Netherlands.