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Imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Laureate Narges Mohammadi Denied Urgent Medical Treatment --- (Archived)

The Islamic Republic of Iran is deliberately withholding critical medical care from renowned Nobel Peace laureate Narges Mohammadi, who is unjustly imprisoned in Tehran’s infamous Evin Prison for her courageous and peaceful human rights advocacy.

Mohammadi is suffering from serious cardiac issues, long-standing gastrointestinal disorders, and most recently, painful spinal injuries. Iran’s prison authorities have not allowed her to receive full or proper treatment for any of these medical issues.

“Iranian authorities are not only unlawfully depriving a Nobel Peace laureate of her freedom but also jeopardizing her life by denying her essential medical care. Narges Mohammadi’s deteriorating condition underscores the Islamic Republic’s brutal and lawless treatment of human rights defenders,” said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI).

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Ok… But what about the zios doing the same thing in support of genocide?

'Whataboutism, the rhetorical practice of responding to an accusation or difficult question by making a counteraccusation, by asking a different but related question, or by raising a different issue altogether. Whataboutism often serves to reduce the perceived plausibility or seriousness of the original accusation or question by suggesting that the person advancing it is hypocritical or that the responder’s misbehavior is not unique or unprecedented. Acts of whataboutism typically begin with rhetorical questions of the form “What about…?”'

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Simply banning the high quality low cost option doesn’t seem to accomplish much.

This is not about quality and costs, but about Chinese forced labour (which is a major reason why it's so cheap), human rights, security as the Chinese government pursue a dictatorial policy.

Between Chinese Surveillance and Israeli Settler Colonialism

There are extensive economic ties between China and Israel. China is Israel’s second-largest trading partner globally and takes the lead in Asia. The Belt and Road initiative has significantly catalyzed China-Israel cooperation. Major Chinese companies like China Railway Engineering Corporation, China Ocean Shipping Company, Huawei, China National Chemical Corporation, and ZTE Corporation are actively investing in Israel, while others such as Huawei, Xiaomi, Lenovo, Geely, and SAIC Motor have set up research and development centers in Israel.

Specifically for Huawei, it acquired two Israeli technology innovation companies, HexaTier and Toganetworks, in 2016 for $42 million and $150 million, respectively. In the electric vehicle industry, in 2022 and 2023, the share of Chinese brands in the Israeli electric car market exceeded 50 percent and 60 percent respectively.

Chinese car sales outlets abound in Israel, represented by companies like BYD, Geely, Hongqi, SAIC Motor, Chery, and Hozon Auto. In the field of infrastructure, in 2021, the Chinese company Pan-Mediterranean Engineering Company (PMEC) constructed the Ashdod Port in southern Israel. China State Construction Engineering Corporation constructed Haifa New Port Terminal, a vital node port of the Belt and Road, and the first time that Chinese enterprises exported “smart port” technology and management to a developed country.

China Railway Engineering Corporation led the construction of the Red Line in Tel Aviv, the first light rail project constructed by a Chinese enterprise in the high-end market of a developed country. The current cooperation between China and Israel involves ports, subways, highways, tunnels and other fields, and the amount of cooperation reaches billions of dollars.

From the Encyclopedia Britannica:

Whataboutism, the rhetorical practice of responding to an accusation or difficult question by making a counteraccusation, by asking a different but related question, or by raising a different issue altogether. Whataboutism often serves to reduce the perceived plausibility or seriousness of the original accusation or question by suggesting that the person advancing it is hypocritical or that the responder’s misbehavior is not unique or unprecedented.

An addition:

Chinese border guards are putting a surveillance app on tourists’ phones (2019)

The spyware: Traders, tourists, and other people crossing the land border from central Asia into Xinjiang are being asked to hand over their phones. Border guards are then loading an app known as Fengcai onto them. This sucks up calendar entries, text messages, phone contacts, and call logs, all of which are then sent to a remote server. It also checks which other apps are on a device. The Fengcai app studied by the reporters was for Android phones, but they also saw guards collect iPhones and plug them into a handheld device.

Content snooping: Security researchers who studied the app found it was also checking phones’ content against a register of over 73,000 items included in a list embedded in the app’s code. Some of the items are things that could be used by terrorists, such as instructions for making weapons and derailing trains.

But the surveillance net is being cast very wide. The list also includes material like books about the Arabic language, audio recordings of the Quran, and even a song by a Japanese band called Unholy Grace, which may have attracted China’s ire when it came out with a track called “Taiwan: Another China.”

One of the things that are disgusting here that they actively urge people to denounce fellow citizens. This is exactly what the Gestapo ('Geheime Staatspolizei' - 'secret state police') in Nazi-Germany did in the 1930s, its just that now they have better surveillance tools.

The PRC intentionally deflated private companies that it felt needed deflation (e.g. construction sector)

The PRC didn't "intentionally deflate" private companies, not in the construction sector nor in any sector.

The property crisis in China may have a few reason, but one of them clearly is the failure of a centrally-planned economy. The state was putting in ever more money in a market without demand. The result are 'ghost towns' and unfinished buildings that are often in such a poor state that they must be demolished. Problem is that many ordinary Chinese people already poured their savings into property that never get build. (One detail here: such pre-payments in China typically run much higher than in the Europe and the U.S. as a share of the purchase price. It's not very funny for the people effected.)

China doesn't 'intentionally deflate' private companies but will be forced to direct more state-owned money to solve the issue as private foreign creditors aren't an option. They won't return to a Chinese property bond market where they've lost already more than USD 10 billion. And there is a risk that a lot of those private companies which have already been engaged for some time will again lose money. In the future, however, China would need more private businesses. More market, less state. A country that is more open to the world. Such a policy would support Chinese people in the long run. It's just that most observers aren't too optimistic that this will happen anytime soon.

The firm that protects both banks and the Eurovision Song contest (2016) - (Archived link)

Cloudflare's roots go back to 2004 when [Cloudflare co-founder Matthew] Prince and Cloudflare co-founder Lee Holloway were working on a computer industry project they called Honey Pot [...]

Five years later [...] the project was far from his [Mr Prince's] mind, when he got an unexpected phone call from the US Department of Homeland Security asking him about the information he had gathered on attacks.

Mr Prince recalls: "They said 'do you have any idea how valuable the data you have is? Is there any way you would sell us that data?'.

"I added up the cost of running it, multiplied it by ten, and said 'how about $20,000 (£15,000)?'.

"It felt like a lot of money. That cheque showed up so fast."

Mr Prince, who has a degree in computer science, adds: "I was telling the story to Michelle Zatlyn, one of my classmates, and she said, 'if they'll pay for it, other people will pay for it'."

TLDR: Here you can support it: https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en

I guess exactly this is part of the companies' problem here. It's bad for the shareholder value and the managers' bonuses.

@sczlbutt@lemmy.pubsub.fun

The original user who posted the video [...] has disclosed [...] that the manipulated video is a parody. But Musk’s post, which has been viewed more than 123 million times, according to the platform, only includes the caption “This is amazing” with a laughing emoji. [...] I don’t think that’s obviously a joke,” [co-president of the advocacy group Public Citizen Rob] Weissman said [...]. “I’m certain that most people looking at it don’t assume it’s a joke. The quality isn’t great, but it’s good enough. And precisely because it feeds into preexisting themes that have circulated around her, most people will believe it to be real.”

Dual-use products can be used for civilian use cases and potentially also for the military, that's why it's called 'dual-use'. That is pretty obvious.

It really helps if you read the article and try to understand. What is arguably more important is to stay away from this propaganda channels. It's all on you, of course, you can do what you want, but if you keep reading and parroting these garbage propaganda and you'll never learn how to think on your own, you'll never get a life.

[...] called quantum technologies “potentially revolutionary and disruptive” and classed them as “an element of strategic competition” with rival states [...] for components that can have military as well as civilian uses [and potentially] give China a scientific and military edge.

So the article is quite clear, just read it.

Basically, it is what China has always been doing, too. Many argue that China has even harsher rules regarding international collaboration -in both science and economy- and does not show any willingness for reciprocity.

Well, it's probably a blend of many things. The ad industry (and the web in general?) is completely broken, but for disinformation to be spreading you need malicious actors exploiting the system and trying to benefit from this. It's a human thing at its core imo.

https://feddit.org/u/sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz, thanks for this. I added an archived version now.

I am not lawyer, but it's another war crime that needs to be investigated. It's also not only Putin, there have been many other involved.

No, you cannot walk around freely. This exactly is the point. There is no full supply chain transparency. Company executives and auditors say that, human rights experts, even some politicians who visited the country. Audits are just based on interviews, and these are useless, as even if workers would be aware of human rights violations, they cannot say that in an interview. This is said by those who have been there and conducted the audits. Read the sources.

At the start of this years, the Chinese government itself has -once again- openly rejected critical calls for human-rights reforms at the U.N. meeting, just to name another example, including a call for an end to persecutions of Uyghurs. It also rejected all recommendations calling on the government to end reprisals against individuals engaging with the international human rights system, even a message of disdain on the ten-year anniversary of the death of Cao Shunli in detention, a former Chinese human rights defender taken into custody on her way to Geneva for China’s 2014 UPR (Universal Periodical Review).

Prior to the U.N. meeting this year, China had even lobbied non-Western countries to praise its record by asking them to make "constructive recommendations", which were essentially bland questions, make vague recommendations, and use their platform to praise the Chinese government’s rights record. And China has been blocking any domestic civil society groups from participating in the preparation of the state report or from making contributions to the review by the U.N. for decades, very much as it does with supply chain audits.

And, again, these additional examples are a VERY TINY sample of what is evident.

What a rubbish. Even Turkey, a country whose government is not exactly a role model for democracy itself, has long called out China's treatment of its Muslim ethnic Uighur minority "a great cause of shame for humanity". Volkswagen closed its Xinjiang-plant it ran with joint venture partner SAIC as "no full supply chain transparency exists".

Markus Löning, Germany’s former commissioner for human rights who oversaw an audit on forced labour for Volkswagen last year (this the one report that is often cited in this ignorant communities where wumaos and ziganwus have given up their own personal developments just for parroting propaganda that is out of touch with world) conceded that the basis for the audit had been a review of documentation rather than interviews with workers, which he said could be “dangerous.” He also said that “even if they [workers] would be aware of something, they cannot say that in an interview.” And when asked about potential links between SAIC-Volkswagen and an aluminum producer in Xinjiang, Volkswagen responded: “We have no transparency about the supplier relationships of the non-controlled shareholding SAIC-Volkswagen.”

In addition, there are numerous Uyguhr people who survived the so-called 're-education camps' who spoke out. A 10 seconds search has found this and that.

This is a VERY TINY sample of what's wrong with Chinese supply chains and the country's stance against human rights, and it's no limited to cars but spans practically all industry sectors. There is ample evidence.

Forced labour and other severe human rights abuses are evident in China's Xinjiang region, even though there is no full supply chain transparency in China. Your remarks regarding the US are true, but here this apparently is a blatant whataboutism.