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  • Beyond Prison: Mapping Deprivation of Liberty in China

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  • who you know, in truth, very little about

    How do you know that?

  • Beyond Prison: Mapping Deprivation of Liberty in China

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  • When I see comments like yours defending China, it reminds me on whataboutism.

  • Microsoft worker emails thousands of colleagues about company’s support for genocidal ‘Israel’

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  • I congratulate this man and hope he'll find soon a new opportunity. In the West you can at least go free and look for another job. If you protest your company or government's genocidal policies in many other countries like in China or Russia, you are losing not only your job.

  • China Pressures UN to Slash Human Rights Funding in Haiti

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  • Your are just mirroring China's unreasonable viewpoints. Beijing is pursuing a much broader goal here, as it has tried to block funding for human rights activities very often in the past (see the links in my comment).

    The people in Haiti need help against criminal gangs, to put it simply. But the Chinese government wants to preserve and strengthen the rule of the jungle rather than the rule of law. Given the history and Beijing's actions at the UN particularly of the decade, Haiti is only one of its targets.

  • China Pressures UN to Slash Human Rights Funding in Haiti

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  • And what exactly makes China's criticism here 'reasonable and surmountable'? The linked document doesn't provide any reasonable answer to this.

    It's just another step by China in its attempt to dismantle human rights in my opinion.

    As an addition, we must note that there has been growing evidence for decades of China's resistance against human right the and the rule of law. To provide a tiny sample, The Finnish Institute for International Affairs stated already in 2019 that China’s approach to human rights is [...] guided first and foremost by the desire to secure the existing political system and its leadership.

    As early as 2017, HRW already revealed that China sought to slash funding for UN human rights officers.

    And in April this year, a report found how, At the UN, China is deploying a growing army of puppet organizations to monitor and intimidate human rights activists,

    Beijing-backed “GONGOs” [government-organized nongovernmental organizations] have transformed the Palais des Nations - in Geneva, Switzerland, where the U.N. Human Rights Council frequently meets - into a hostile environment for critics of President Xi Jinping.

    And this is really a tiny list. There is ample evidence for China's hostility against human rights and the rule of law.

  • China says it has a right to target people overseas with new ethnic unity law, Reuters reports

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  • China debt seen as major hurdle in Venezuela’s bid to restructure US$150B+ liabilities

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  • Agencies and other media companies share articles as apparently these two here (they refer to the original source). All fine I would say.

  • Kenya’s China loan revamp sparks wider interest in yuan switch, AidData says

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  • Will Kenya's revenue streams - such as those gained from the country's exports and other unrelated income - be used as collateral for the Chinese debt as it is usually the case with Chinese loans?

    If interested:

    How China Collateralizes

    As security, they [Chinese lenders] use liquid, easily accessible assets, such as cash in bank accounts located in China. They rarely take infrastructure project assets as collateral, but often rely for repayment on established commodity revenue streams unrelated to the project. Typically, EMDE governments and state-owned enterprises commit to route foreign currency proceeds from commodity sales through bank accounts controlled by the lender. The cash balances in these accounts can be very large; in low-income, commodity-exporting countries, they average more than 20% of annual PPG debt service to all external creditors.

  • Kenya’s China loan revamp sparks wider interest in yuan switch, AidData says

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  • Will Kenya's revenue streams - such as those gained from the country's exports and other unrelated income - be used as collateral for the Chinese debt as it is usually the case with Chinese loans?

    If interested:

    How China Collateralizes

    As security, they [Chinese lenders] use liquid, easily accessible assets, such as cash in bank accounts located in China. They rarely take infrastructure project assets as collateral, but often rely for repayment on established commodity revenue streams unrelated to the project. Typically, EMDE governments and state-owned enterprises commit to route foreign currency proceeds from commodity sales through bank accounts controlled by the lender. The cash balances in these accounts can be very large; in low-income, commodity-exporting countries, they average more than 20% of annual PPG debt service to all external creditors.

  • Brazil convicts Volkswagen for enslaving laborers in the Amazon 40 years ago

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  • Good. Now they should go for BYD, too.

  • [Opinion] India pivots to Russian crude and coal to mitigate Iran war fallout

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  • India pivots to Russian crude and coal to mitigate Iran war fallout

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  • No German, no swim: Language entry rule sparks debate in Germany

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  • I agree as here it also seems to be bureaucracy and a lack of funding.

    The trigger for introducing the rule was an incident the previous weekend. Nobel - himself a qualified lifeguard - had to rescue a toddler from water that was far too deep. "Our lake is up to 13 metres deep in places. That is simply dangerous," [Mathias Nobel, manager of the Heidebad lake swimming area] said. What is feasible and what is not?

    Nobel said children in particular needed to understand how to behave around water and had to be supervised by people who also knew how to act. Lifeguards also needed to be able to communicate with visitors directly. If a group arrived without a single person with sufficient German, he and his team had serious concerns, he said.

    Maybe they need more personnel.

  • China: UN Human Rights Office Reiterates Concerns Over Uyghur Rights

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  • The United Nations Human Rights Office has reiterated its concerns over what it describes as “severe” human rights violations against the Uyghur population in Xinjiang, also known as East Turkestan, despite ongoing international scrutiny of the region.

  • China's African tariff removals, trade surge spur yuan adoption

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  • On April 27, one day after a government press release endorsed RightsCon, we received a phone call from MoTS about an urgent issue and were told that diplomats from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) were putting pressure on the Government of Zambia because Taiwanese civil society participants were planning to join us in person.

  • China, Laos agree special fund under Mekong cooperation framework

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  • Report does not say how much ​would be allocated, nor what types of projects ​would be supported.

  • China, Laos agree special fund under Mekong cooperation framework

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  • Report does not say how much ​would be allocated, nor what types of projects ​would be supported.

  • China's African tariff removals, trade surge spur yuan adoption

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  • China’s $300 billion pile of bad consumer debt threatens economy

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  • I don't know where you've got this data. The U.S. Federal Reserve says that in the first quarter 2026, transitions into serious delinquency in the U.S. were mostly unchanged for auto loans and credit cards but accelerated slightly for mortgages (representing the largest share of household debt also in the U.S.), rising from 1.4 percent to 1.5 percent.

    But I don't think that numbers are comparable, especially not between China and the rest of the world as Beijing's isn't very transparent. Most reliable data comes from research organizations as Gavekal Dragonomics cited in the article. In a report from last year, Dragonomics said that the number of people defaulted on their debt in China are now twice as high as they were five years ago, and they were citing high youth unemployment and a property slump as the reason, with no relief in sight.

    In a recent report, Dragonomics says that the average non-performing loan (NPL) ratio for Chinese household loans in 2026 is more than double the rate prior to the pandemic.

    The problem here is - again - that Chinese banks don't fully disclose all numbers to assess the NPL. One exception is China Merchants Bank, which specializes in household loans: in its annual report, it disclosed RMB62bn of new bad retail loans in 2025, almost double the RMB36bn in 2024.

    Since China Merchants is considered the industry leader in managing consumer lending, other banks are probably seeing similar problems with household debts, according to the researchers. NPL ratios rose for every type of household loan: mortgages, operating loans for small businesses, consumption loans, and credit-card liabilities. This suggests the problem is a general strain on the ability of households to service their debts.

    As Dragonomics writes:

    Such a deterioration in households’ financial situation is the clear consequence of years of weak income growth and a poor labor market.

    Their entire report makes a good and informative read: https://research.gavekal.com/article/consumer-defaults-are-climbing/