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  • Germany nears 10,000 heat-related deaths this year

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  • This is obviously not limited to Germany or Europe, unfortunately, as the world has been experiencing such heat waves and the related consequences frequently.

    In 2023, for example, when China had its warmest year on record since 1850, fatalities caused by heat waves were over 300% higher than the historical average, according to the medical journal The Lancet.

    The study recognizes some successes in China to limit the number of heat-related fatalities, but also says:

    The absence of a national health adaptation plan limits strategic direction and financial investment. Coal consumption increased ... and only 24% of rural homes used clean heating in 2023, leading to exposure to indoor air pollution. Moreover, fossil fuel subsidies continue to grow, further complicating the transition to cleaner energy sources.

    Does anyone know what the German or European plans are?

  • Germany Quietly Maps China's Weak Spots as the EU Braces for a Trade War

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  • As a related report on the matter:

    Initial findings highlight German suppliers like Trumpf SE and Carl Zeiss AG, which provide critical components for ASML lithography equipment, as key vulnerabilities in China's high-tech sector.

    Specialized semiconductor firms including Siltronic AG, Aixtron SE, and SUSS MicroTec SE also occupy indispensable niches across the microchip manufacturing chain.

    Beyond halting fresh machinery shipments, Berlin's most effective point of leverage involves terminating maintenance and technical support for existing equipment operating inside China.

    While ASML cannot export its most advanced machines to Chinese clients, the country remains heavily reliant on foreign servicing for its vast installed base of older systems.

    Advanced patented medical products and high-tech industrial machinery represent additional areas where Chinese firms have failed to develop domestic replacements.

  • Germany Quietly Maps China's Weak Spots as the EU Braces for a Trade War

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  • As a related report on the matter:

    Initial findings highlight German suppliers like Trumpf SE and Carl Zeiss AG, which provide critical components for ASML lithography equipment, as key vulnerabilities in China's high-tech sector.

    Specialized semiconductor firms including Siltronic AG, Aixtron SE, and SUSS MicroTec SE also occupy indispensable niches across the microchip manufacturing chain.

    Beyond halting fresh machinery shipments, Berlin's most effective point of leverage involves terminating maintenance and technical support for existing equipment operating inside China.

    While ASML cannot export its most advanced machines to Chinese clients, the country remains heavily reliant on foreign servicing for its vast installed base of older systems.

    Advanced patented medical products and high-tech industrial machinery represent additional areas where Chinese firms have failed to develop domestic replacements.

  • Italian machine tool sector wants tougher EU trade rules on China, says imported products must match same technical and safety standards required of European firms

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  • Italian machine tool sector wants tougher EU trade rules on China, says imported products must match same technical and safety standards required of European firms

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  • They don't exist. The number of expats in China is next to zero, according to China's own census.

  • Italian machine tool sector wants tougher EU trade rules on China, says imported products must match same technical and safety standards required of European firms

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  • Italian economy is that it does a phenomenal job of raising, educating, and training young people. But it does a dogshit job of actually paying them. Consequently, a significant number of professionally trained Italian engineers, IT specialists, and other highly educated workers find themselves moving to China.

    The annual average wage (purchasing power parity) according to the OECD is EUR 58,000 in Italy compared to EUR 34,000 in China. (And these are the official numbers, as China is much likely cooking the books even multiple times; first, this is done by regional governments in China as they want to meet their goals given by the central government, and then the central government in Beijing is likely cooking again.)

    Shanghai, in particular, has an enormous European expat community.

    According to the latest Chinese census, China has some 1.4 million immigrants. That's 0.1% of the entire population, and this number includes residents of Macao and Hong Kong.

    There is absolutely no meaningfully large expat community in Shanghai nor in any other city or region in China, neither European nor any nationality. Expats in China are an almost invisibly small community, they barely exist.

    As it is detailed in the research report, Goodbye China: What Do Fewer Foreigners Mean for Multinationals and the Chinese Economy?,

    The number of foreigners living in China is very low in international comparison and has further declined recently .... the total number of immigrants amounted to just 0.1% of China’s population of more than 1.41 billion people. This is an exceptionally low share not only compared to Western countries such as the United States (15.4%), Germany (15.7%) or France (12.8%) but also compared to China’s East Asian neighbours Japan (2.0%) or South Korea (2.3%), or even compared to the similarly populous – but economically less developed – India (0.4%).

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  • Thank China for saving global economy, ECB analysts say

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  • Yeah, and don't forget Europe saves China for keeping its markets open as China depends heavily on exports given consumer confidence in its domestic market is low, the property crisis is still looming, public debts are increasing, U.S. tariffs are high, ...

    Oh, and the same propaganda works also elsewhere, of course. As one example:

    China does Australia an 'enormous favour' to keep oil prices down

    To save you a click: It's basically the very same narrative, but this time it's not Europe but Australia. As if China had stockpiled oil to help others ...

  • Thank China for saving global economy, ECB analysts say

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  • Yeah, and don't forget Europe saves China for keeping its markets open as China depends heavily on exports given consumer confidence in its domestic market is low, the property crisis is still looming, public debts are increasing, U.S. tariffs are high, ...

    Oh, and the same propaganda works also elsewhere, of course. As one example:

    China does Australia an 'enormous favour' to keep oil prices down

    To save you a click: It's basically the very same narrative, but this time it's not Europe but Australia. As if China had stockpiled oil to help others ...

  • Thank China for saving global economy, ECB analysts say

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  • Yeah, and don't forget Europe saves China for keeping its markets open as China depends heavily on exports given consumer confidence in its domestic market is low, the property crisis is still looming, public debts are increasing, U.S. tariffs are high, ...

    Oh, and the same propaganda works also elsewhere, of course. As one example:

    China does Australia an 'enormous favour' to keep oil prices down

    To save you a click: It's basically the very same narrative, but this time it's not Europe but Australia. As if China had stockpiled oil to help others ...

  • Nine in ten Spaniards believe corruption is widespread under PM Pedro Sanchez, survey finds

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  • What about?

    How does he 'punish' his brother? His wife?

    And for Sanchez's political allies, as I wrote in this read already, an investigation this June led to a 12-hour police raid on Socialist Party HQ in Madrid. The allegation is that the party paid member Leire Díez to carry out a campaign to discredit police, judges and prosecutors who were investigating existing cases, such as that affecting Cerdán, who has been named as a suspect in this probe.

    This socialist government is as corrupt as the conservatives before. The only thing the is 'funny' here is that so many accounts springing into action to support these traitors while at the same time accusing right-wing parties for doing the exact same thing. That's hypocrisy at its best.

  • Nine in ten Spaniards believe corruption is widespread under PM Pedro Sanchez, survey finds

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  • Is Zapatero's 'jewel case' included in the 143 socialist corruption cases? If so, it should be deleted, becasue the former socialist PM said that the jewels worth 1.3 million euros that were found in his safe as part of an investigation are only a 'gift' from a foreign country, and never intended to mean financial gain.

    The Spanish socialists came to power on the promise of clean politics that works for the people.

    In June 2026, Spain’s supreme court jailed Sanchez ally and former transport minister José Luis Ábalos to 24 in prison for taking bribes on public contracts.

    A few weeks later, the Spanish prime minister’s brother David Sanchez was convicted of nepotism and banned from holding public office for 9 years.

    An investigation in June led to a 12-hour police raid on Socialist Party HQ in Madrid. The allegation is that the party paid member Leire Díez to carry out a campaign to discredit police, judges and prosecutors who were investigating existing cases, such as that affecting Cerdán, who has been named as a suspect in this probe.

    And this is, as the data in you link suggests, not everything.

    The socialists are the same as the conservatives, the difference is just rhetoric. All these politicians don’t care for the people but rather work for themselves.

  • Nine in ten Spaniards believe corruption is widespread under PM Pedro Sanchez, survey finds

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  • Sanchez has been pretty much the sole voice pushing back ...

    I personally believe this is a show, a distraction from his own corruption cases. I also think that some of the allegations against Sanchez and his allies are blown out of proportion, but the most is true. And, as you say (if I interpret you correctly), the courts handed over some verdicts already.

    Sanchez wasn't even consistent when it comes to deeper EU intregration. He stood against a tougher stance against China, and while Spain prohibited Chinese tech company Huawei from its 5G network, it contract this same company for the country's judiicial wiretap system. It seems that after Hungary's Orban ousting, Sanchez is Xi Jinping's biggest useful idiot in the EU.

  • Nine in ten Spaniards believe corruption is widespread under PM Pedro Sanchez, survey finds

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  • Pedro Sanchez and his socialists don't care either. It's the same thing, the only possible difference is the rhetoric.

  • France Adopts Landmark Law Targeting Ultra-Fast Fashion

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  • That's a different topic. It has nothing to do with fast fasion's impact and the environmental and social harm it entails.

  • France Adopts Landmark Law Targeting Ultra-Fast Fashion

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  • Angola allows banks to use China's yuan for reserve requirements

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  • Would it be a good idea to require an article to contain at least 1 sentence for being posted?

  • Angola allows banks to use China's yuan for reserve requirements

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  • a healthy chunk of that is just us selling their refined oil back to them.

    According to Comtrade, Angola's imports from the U.S. is mainly machinery, electric equipment, articles of iron and steel, and other products. Oil imports from the U.S. account for 0.3%.

    And Bilateral Angola-China trade in 2024 was USD 18.5 billion, with USD 16.24 billion are crude oil exports from Angola to China. This means that 99.9% of Angola's entire exports to China is oil. That's more than a 'healthy chunk' I would say.

  • Angola allows banks to use China's yuan for reserve requirements

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  • Would it be a good idea to require an article to contain at least 1 sentence for being posted?

  • Angola allows banks to use China's yuan for reserve requirements

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  • Would it be a good idea to require an article to contain at least 1 sentence for being posted?