

As an addition: Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and the UK also announced new sanctions against Russia at the start of this week.
As an addition: Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and the UK also announced new sanctions against Russia at the start of this week.
As an addition: The UK stands here with Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan in a rare show of global solidarity as these countries also announced new sanctions against Russia.
Yeah, it’s sort of a Neville Chamberlain moment.
Nato without US, but with Australia, New Zealand, Japan: the three countries reaffirmed and announced new sanctions at the start of this week.
Yeah, and don’t forget that the UK announces largest sanctions package against Russia since 2022
Addition: Australia, New Zealand, Japan also just announced new sanctions.
UK announces largest sanctions package against Russia since 2022
The sanctions will also target Russia’s military machine, entities in third countries who support it and the fragile supply networks that it relies on.
Targets include:
- producers and suppliers of machine tools, electronics and dual-use goods for Russia’s military, including microprocessors used in weapons systems. These are based in a range of third countries including Central Asian states, Turkey, Thailand, India and China, which is the largest supplier of critical goods for Russia’s military
- North Korean Defence Minister No Kwang Chol and other North Korean generals and senior officials complicit in deploying over 11,000 DPRK forces to Russia. Putin is using DPRK forces as cannon fodder; DPRK has suffered over 4,000 casualties
- 13 Russian targets, including LLC Grant-Trade, its owner Marat Mustafaev and his sister Dinara Mustafaeva, who have used the company to funnel advanced European technology into Russia to support its illegal war
China (and Russia) have actively been sabotaging European infrastructure as we have seen in the recent couple of years. It would be a bad idea, therefore, to become dependent on foreign tech that can be controlled by one these countries.
This is not rumors. Weidel admitted to have met the Chinese ambassador, she was on China’s payroll, and her close ties with China have long been known. All these ate facts. Just read the article (and other sources across the web).
Europe’s -or any European country’s- dependence on Chinese renewable energy technology is evident. Literally all experts agree on that, even if there ate first steps to reduce this dependency.
They also agree on the threat this poses to the EU and democracy. Of course, tbere should be rules and norms for profit-oriented firms operating in Europe. These rules are never perfect and may need to be adjusted in Ireland and elsewhere.
The enemy does not come from within, though.
Europe should avoid relying on China for renewable technology, says EU minister – (October 2024)
Europe should avoid relying on Chinese technologies in building wind and solar power infrastructure across the Continent to prevent a repeat of its dependence on Russia for oil and gas, an EU energy minister has said.
Speaking in Brussels, Belgian energy minister Tinne Van der Straeten said the European Union had learned the dangers of relying on one country for energy “the hard way” after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. “We cannot make this mistake twice. If all our [renewable] technologies are in the hands of China, delivered by China, it will have a big security impact,” she said.
I don’t ‘toss out’ the AfD and the CCP. This article is about Germany and China, and I don’t see why I woukd engage in whataboutery.
I would be more concerned about the technology that often comes from non-European, autocratic countries. Europe risks to replace its dependence from Russian fossil fuel with dependence from Chinese renewable energy tech.
The problem with fascist parties like the AfD, CCP, and all the others is that they don’t care about democracy and human rights.
But if she’s working with Chinese bureaucrats on an economic plan …
You have again (maybe intentionally?) misunderstood the issue. China is working to undermine democracy in Germany (as well as it does elsewhere, btw). What the AfD and China have in mind has nothing to do with an ‘economic plan.’ The China-related scandals of AfD politicians and arrests of their AfD staff last year are only a faint spark of the ‘plan’ they pursue.
This is not for, but against Germany and its democratic institutions what they are doing.
Yeah, and let us not forget that many of their voters receive their ‘information’ exclusively from social media, and here primarily from Tiktok and Xitter. The algorithms likely don’t show them anything bad of China, Russia, AfD, …
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You clearly have misunderstood the whole thing here.
There is nothing in this story that reflects the headline. It’s pure guesswork.
We must not pigeonhole people, not in the US nor anywhere else. As I write this comment there are apparently two US citizens in this thread who definitely don’t appear to fit into your description. [Edit typo.]
It says Tiktok and Twitter, so the tech giants come from China and the U.S. here. And they are not (only) aiding Russia. The AfD has close connections to China, and Beijing is very interested in the rise of the far right in Germany and the rest of Europe.
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