Generally they [China] have the best AI regulations worldwide.

This is pure propaganda by the Chinese Communist Party. Workers' rights in China are among the weakest globally, and we see this at the moment in Chinese labour market.

The Chinese ruling you are referring to in you comment doesn’t forbid companies from using AI to automate certain roles held by humans, as stated by experts such as Moshe Lander, an economics professor at Canadian Concordia University,

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.

Thanks. I provided an archived link. Doesn't it work? (Here all seems fine.)

I watched this interview, and the most important detail in my opinion in this interview was he supports use of force on Taiwan, but he refuses to say why exactly. His arguments remain weak. Maybe the reason is money?

China has been Malaysia's best trade deficit partner (and the deficits has quadrupled over the last ten years). As a 'partner' of China's Belt and Road Initiative, Malaysia also seeks investments.

China’s special administrative region, Hong Kong, is Malaysia's second largest foreign direct investment contributor (second only to Singapore, according to 2023 data). One prominent example was the investment by Chinese-owned INV New Material Technology in a lithium-ion battery plant in Penang.

Malaysia's Port Klang plays also a growing role in shifting global supply chains.The Port Klang Free Zone has received a surge of inquiries from everywhere, but especially from China, not in the least as the country's mercantilist policy seeks relief from higher US tariffs.

I watched this interview, and the most important detail in my opinion in this interview was he supports use of force on Taiwan, but he refuses to say why exactly. His arguments remain weak. Maybe the reason is money?

China has been Malaysia's best trade deficit partner (and the deficits has quadrupled over the last ten years). As a 'partner' of China's Belt and Road Initiative, Malaysia also seeks investments.

China’s special administrative region, Hong Kong, is Malaysia's second largest foreign direct investment contributor (second only to Singapore, according to 2023 data). One prominent example was the investment by Chinese-owned INV New Material Technology in a lithium-ion battery plant in Penang.

Malaysia's Port Klang plays also a growing role in shifting global supply chains.The Port Klang Free Zone has received a surge of inquiries from everywhere, but especially from China, not in the least as the country's mercantilist policy seeks relief from higher US tariffs.

I would do it, but I am banned, too :-)

It's a misleading headline.

The article says that "the revisions .... are seen as mildly positive for the housing market", and given the experience with Chinese policies in its domestic market in recent years even this may seem exaggerated.

The Chinese government has been announcing many measures over the last couple of years to revive consumptoin, but most of them remained lip services. And even where concrete measures were taken, the effects were very limited.

China is spending billions on many forms of disinformation campaigns in all countries. OpenAI recently identified two clusters of disinformation accounts, as one report says,

• The accounts are likely from a private Chinese company, that used ChatGPT to generate fake pro-American commentary opposing data centers.
• The 'Data Center Bandwagon' group operated from late 2025 to early 2026, posing on X as Americans via VPNs while prompting ChatGPT in Simplified Chinese.
• OpenAI rated the campaigns Category One on its Breakout Scale, meaning they stayed on one platform and generated virtually no authentic engagement.

As much as I dislike OpenAI and its management's attitudes, it's also clear that China is interfering also here. It's common practice for Chinese disinformation campaigners to exploit existing issues to sow division among Western societies for its own gains.

It’s somehow funny that Apple has been permanently complaining about European laws, but can easily comply with Chinese censorship rules. Tim Cook literally sold the company to an autocratic regime.

It's not only about control but also a big threat for democracy and a stable society as a whole. Last year, for example, Chinese state-backed hacking group Salt Typhoon breached the U.S. telecom networks' wiretap system (a backdoor legally required for law enforcement to access people's private communication), forcing the authorities to urge U.S. citizens using encrypted messaging. So there is no such thing as a backdoor only for the good guys.

Breaking encryption opens the door not just for control but also for malign actors within the borders and from abroad. Where such democratic decline ends can be seen in China, for example, where total control and surveillance is suppressing any form of dissent.

(There is a very good documentary about the devastating consequences of surveillance for those interested: https://total-trust.org/.)

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Good to see that people's protests (and democratic allies' concerns) lead to a change in politics.

If someone had told me ten years ago that in 2025 the UK would have long left the EU and we were talking about a membership of Canada, I would have declared them bewildered. LOL.

This is a very weird framing of this study. The original study (which is linked in the article) is in German. Those who don't speak German will find a useful translation provider, I provide the study's summary literal translation:

>Young people: EU and democracy are good, but reforms are needed

• 57% prefer democracy to any other form of government - 39% think that the EU does not function particularly democratically
• Young Europeans want change - 53% criticize the EU for being too preoccupied with trivialities instead of focusing on the essentials
• Cost of living, defense against external threats and better conditions for businesses should be priorities for the EU
• Only 42% think that the EU is one of the three most powerful global political players

Among others, the study also says (again, a direct translation, I am not paraphrasing):

48% of young Europeans believe that democracy in their country is under threat, compared to 61% in Germany. Two thirds rate their country's membership of the EU as positive. At the same time, 53% of young people criticize the fact that the EU is too often concerned with minor issues. Half of 16 to 26-year-olds think the EU is a good idea, but very poorly implemented.

I don't say that everything is perfect, but the whole study paints a completely different picture than this article - and especially its headline - appears to suggest.

[Edit my comments for clarity, translation has not been edited.]

This is a very weird framing of this study. The original study (which is linked in the article) is in German. Those who don't speak German will find a useful translation provider, I provide the study's summary literal translation:

>Young people: EU and democracy are good, but reforms are needed

• 57% prefer democracy to any other form of government - 39% think that the EU does not function particularly democratically
• Young Europeans want change - 53% criticize the EU for being too preoccupied with trivialities instead of focusing on the essentials
• Cost of living, defense against external threats and better conditions for businesses should be priorities for the EU
• Only 42% think that the EU is one of the three most powerful global political players

Among others, the study also says (again, a direct translation, I am not paraphrasing):

48% of young Europeans believe that democracy in their country is under threat, compared to 61% in Germany. Two thirds rate their country's membership of the EU as positive. At the same time, 53% of young people criticize the fact that the EU is too often concerned with minor issues. Half of 16 to 26-year-olds think the EU is a good idea, but very poorly implemented.

I don't say that everything is perfect, but the whole study paints a completely different picture than this article - and especially its headline - appears to suggest.

[Edit my comments for clarity, translation has not been edited.]

Parliamentary committee labels China ‘flagrant’ perpetrator of transnational repression on UK soil

China is among the worst perpetrators of transnational repression in the United Kingdom, increasingly persecuting dissidents who have sought refuge in the country, according to the U.K. Joint Committee on Human Rights ...

“The UK should be a place of sanctuary and safety, however we are concerned that there is a growth of foreign repression on UK soil that is going unchecked,” Lord David Alton, who chairs the committee, said in a statement ...

As an (important?) side note: Europe is among the region with the highest equality, together with Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Philippine, Papua New Guinea. Of course, there is a lot room for improvement, but inequality has not risen in the last 20 or so years - unlike in countries like Russia, China, India, where the gap between the richest and the poor has widen significantly.

Addition: Here is the data - https://wid.world/world/#shweal_p99p100_z/US;FR;DE;CN;ZA;GB;WO-PPP;QE-PPP;XR-PPP/last/eu/k/p/yearly/s/false/12.912/100/curve/false/region

Why is Github, as a U.S. company, not asking the U.S. to fund Open Source?

And don't forget that the US must say, "Thank you."

Spain reconsiders possibility of hackers causing blackouts

The possibility of the blackouts being caused by a cyberattack was immediately considered, though the grid operators in Spain and Portugal both said at the time there was no evidence of hacking, a point that was echoed by authorities and politicians.

Now, reports suggest Spanish authorities are investigating whether smaller power generators were a weak link that was exploited by cyber criminals to target the electricity grid, according to the Financial Times ...

[The original FT article is behind a paywall.]

According to the files, their reach spreads outside China’s borders, supplying censorship and surveillance technology to governments in Myanmar, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, and others linked to the Belt and Road Initiative.

They speak mandarin

So China will be part of Taiwan then?

And Xinjiang and Tibet will become independent countries then, as they speak Uyghur and Tibetic languages rather than Mandarin? Right?