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[Hiryu2.0]

China’s Espionage in Europe is Deepening and More Sophisticated than Acknowledged, Expert Says

China is expanding sophisticated, long-term intelligence networks across Europe by blending human sources with academic and business ties.

www.kyivpost.com

 

[Picanha]

Just look at all the networks they built starting with the Konfuzius institute.

Then creating a bunch of managers working for them and getting their justification of existance and their pro China course also from them in form of "market access".

They work the greedy and stupid over here.

Stupid like Germany we even educated hundreds of thousands of Chinese students for free and let them network here but some saw the shittyness of the CCP China inc. and never returned

Until their trap snaps..

People were gullible in the past to an extent unimaginable the champagner must have flown in streams at the CCPs offices.

If someone said something quick pull the racism, colonialism, anti china propaganda card.

The CCP is the most benevolent and trustworty entity on the planet didn't you know? People with Stalin and Mao shirts tell you...

 

[Picanha]

European policymakers should assume that China will continue to curtail critical material supply to European and partner industries.

Yes a f***ing no brainer. EU bureaucrats must start to get responsible for their actions or inactions. Inaction doesn't warrant salaries and pensions btw...

Also always wanting to believe in the benevolence of dictatorship one party ruled China is utterly idiotic and tells a lot about the people believing that. Should rather look for less complicated jobs like selling pretzels...

So either 5th column or totally unfit for the position. Its only one of these possibilities.

Its not a rosy pony show you are up against cunning dictators if you didn't know.

False sense of security: European complacency on rare earths is the wrong answer to the US-China trade truce

Talk of a US–China 'trade truce' may lull Europe into a false sense of security. Beijing's export controls on rare earths and critical materials remain disruptive, unpredictable and coercive. Unless the EU accelerates de-risking, its industries and defence sector will stay dangerously exposed.

www.iss.europa.eu

At least they are past the "partner" stage.

A long way to go still

 

[Picanha]

Thats the plan...its pretty hard to see I know (sarcasm) who could have known will be the answer in the future but the greedy happily took the money and f***ed over everybody else.

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Any involvement with China must be seen as to how to exploit the most from them while simultaneously keep a robust and diversified manufacturing base constantly improving.

Also essential government control on selling sensitive manufacturers to end blackmailimg opportunities for the CCP.

A pure Europe first policy is needed.

Also complete end of research cooperation.

And tit for that on every one of their one sided policies.

 

[Picanha]

Its also not that hard to win this game we already won once..

Commies do what commies do

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Just apply some controlling and common sense the commies lack both...

 

[Hiryu2.0]

mehhh

 

[Picanha]

EU frees billions in bid to reduce China rare earth reliance – DW – 12/03/2025

The European Commission plans to set up a center to coordinate the purchases and stocks of the crucial raw materials. China is by far the largest supplier, and vast US demand also complicates European acquisition.

www.dw.com

The EU's executive on Wednesday announced new policies looking to coordinate the purchase and stockpiling of raw materials like the rare earth minerals crucial for the automotive, electronics and defense industries.

The European Commission also said it would employ tougher economic policies with trade partners to better secure rare earths supplies.

"The EU will also be more strategic in leveraging its economic weight and the access to its Single Market," the Commission said.

Existing measures the Commission plans to use independently of their original purpose to strengthen economic security could include anti-dumping duties, measures against takeovers of European companies from abroad or the exclusion of companies from third countries from public contracts.

 

[primer]

Permitting process: The CRMA sets legally binding deadlines for permitting, with a 27-month timeline for extraction projects and a 15-month timeline for processing and recycling projects, compared to previous timelines that could take decades.

China made them sensible?
Stockpiling thats like breaching all the basement tenants of the neo-con EU elite.

 

[Musashi]

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[Mike1976]

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Throw the Hungarian flag out of Brussels along with their delegation + membership

 

[TheKiwi]

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Is that the one who while being violently anti-gay in public was caught having a gay orgy? Or was that some other Orban fan-boi?

 

[Jake84]

Closet homosexuals are the worst.

Never heard of that story, while not doubting it either.

 

[Mike1976]

Closet homosexuals are the worst.

Never heard of that story, while not doubting it either.

He was there to expose the actual gays. So dedicated he went full "retard"

 

[muck]

In other news, the European Public Prosecutor's Office has had the Union's former top diplomat, the Italian Federica Mogherini, arrested on charges of corruption. Now the head of the College of Europe, she's alleged to have once misappropriated funds in a scheme of favouritism to the benefit of that school. (Source)

 

[muck]

The European Parliament is elected by the populace, but of course that's of no concern to a billionaire accustomed to buying governments. Elon was bitching about X having to pay a €150 mio. fine for X violating transparency regulations, by the way.

Couldn't make this up. The moment Medvedev agrees with you, you have become a certified idiot.

 

[primer]

US has the federal govt. He seems to dislike that too for mal spending. eg inventing doge.
He has said EU vehicle manufactuers will be demolished by the Chinese unless tariffed which is right.
Even the Japanese are struggling. Nissan broke.
The car manufacturing high water is also the country's high water. It's predictable.

 

[muck]

Musk is perfectly entitled to demanding the reduction of bureaucracy or the changing of laws. What pisses me off something fierce is his entitlement mentality. A policy isn't undemocratic only because it hurt his wallet. This one was passed by the directly elected European Parliament, so there's no lack of popular representation.

And how big is the "hurt" to his wallet anyway? That man makes €20 million per hour, it takes him under eight hours of existing to pay the fine.

It boggles my mind that even some Europeans applaud his outburst. Let's be real, Musk doesn't give a wet fart about the liberties of Europeans (not that he needs to), he just wants to make money. And that's fine, but I hate the sanctimoniousness of pretending otherwise.

Remember "Dieselgate", i.e. the tens of billions in fines and dozens of years behind bars dished out to people who had committed a crime which the American right can't even acknowledge as such (climate change being a "hoax", after all)? Remember when the U.S. Air Force wanted to buy an Airbus tanker, only for the Senate to change the law to give Boeing the contract instead?

Imagine the reaction if Europeans would bitch about American laws being enforced in America as much as some American businessmen and politicians bitch about European laws being enforced here.

 

[primer]

There has been a sea change of common sense in the US, for years Trump has been complaining due to paying those costs. Problem with businesses is they don't get represented in the vote so this is a rare change.
Wasn't long ago it was cheap small goods demolishing local manufacturers and all they said for a eulogy was it was dirty work and their regulations usually being the final straw. Yet they persisted only throwing up tariffs for the vehicle sector recently.
Both Trump and Musk share their experience but it could have been sooner.
There is a lack of future planning with their ideas.
Here replaced food with trees owned often by EU companies extorted by local green taxes and green washing themselves miles away here. The early stages of the Paris accord warned that food should not be the detriment of the green policies yet that foresight was deleted apparently by the carbon traders, the ones with the best motive obviously. Oh well the poor currently unable to afford meat in a country that has the most efficient production due to simple abundance of yearly growing grass.
Homeless used to be the labour/green thing but I predict eating cat food will be their next thing they didn't see coming. Will not take the blame also predictable

 

[NZM305]

There has been a sea change of common sense in the US, for years Trump has been complaining due to paying those costs. Problem with businesses is they don't get represented in the vote so this is a rare change.
Wasn't long ago it was cheap small goods demolishing local manufacturers and all they said for a eulogy was it was dirty work and their regulations usually being the final straw. Yet they persisted only throwing up tariffs for the vehicle sector recently.
Both Trump and Musk share their experience but it could have been sooner.
There is a lack of future planning with their ideas.
Here replaced food with trees owned often by EU companies extorted by local green taxes and green washing themselves miles away here. The early stages of the Paris accord warned that food should not be the detriment of the green policies yet that foresight was deleted apparently by the carbon traders, the ones with the best motive obviously. Oh well the poor currently unable to afford meat in a country that has the most efficient production due to simple abundance of yearly growing grass.
Homeless used to be the labour/green thing but I predict eating cat food will be their next thing they didn't see coming. Will not take the blame also predictable

I'd say the Duopoly of the supply chain here has alot more to do with the.poor being unable to afford meat vs any green initiatives.
Combined with the massive shift to dairy so we can sell all our milk powder overseas.

 

[Picanha]

In dealing with China the EU needs to act and not only pay lip service. This is the drawback of the bureacratic nature its not drivrn by ambition but lethargic bureacrats which can sometimes only be bothered to serve insular industry interests. Which are led by bad choices of the industrial actors now trying to save their outsourcing idiocy.

China bets big on exports, but will Europe’s economy pay the price?

China’s export surge threatens Europe’s economy, with Goldman Sachs warning of GDP losses in Germany, Italy, France, and Spain due to rising competition and weak EU policy responses.

www.euronews.com

VW going mimi on EU tariffs for their Chinese built cars.

How about no? Build the cars here or get lost.

I once had the Tavascan on screen until I found out its built in China can keep it there...and the VW engineers and managers loving China too...don't come back please.