Xi Jinping needs an annual GDP growth of 5% to meet China’s long-term goals. So China’s growth is always around 5%, at least according to official sources.

Economists even within China doubt that the official statistics in China are correct. In September 2024, Zhu Hengpeng - a leading economist who worked for the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) for more than 20 years, most recently as the Institute of Economics deputy director and director of the Public Policy Research Center - disappeared after criticizing China’s official statistics, claiming the official data is trying to gloss over the Chinese economy which is in a much worse state than the official numbers make people believe. (In the meantime Zhu works again for the Academy afaik, but he now believes the data - at least ‘officially’.)

if you think it applies to anything Twongo said.

Not anything, I cited one of her statements.

You, @technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com, have been frequently posting highly biased sources - including such outlets as the wsws. org, a propaganda medium that explicitly promotes and conveys Chinese Communist Party talking points. This site even spreads Beijing’s warmongering propaganda against Taiwan. The wsws is an openly dedicated pro-China mouthpiece.

It’s absurdly weird that you are accusing someone else of being a ‘propagandist’.

The sources and facts I post are highly reliable and independent, If you have doubts about that, feel free to address them specifically and provide a rationale for your accusations. This second-hand intimidation is usually what one would expect from ‘tankies’ as you may know.

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@Twongo@hexbear.net

There is undeniable evidence of forced labour in China, especially in East Turkestan /Xinjiang. So it must be you who is ignorant.

Europeans always choose the made up claims

And this part of your statement is apparently racist.

Dude, touch some grass and then stop reading the sources where you get these ideas. This is an absurdly weird comment that makes no sense.

It’s not only about security and sovereignty but also to avoid imported goods made by slave labour.

‘Betting on China’s low inflation’ is a bold statement as China has been (unsuccessfully) betting deflation for mote than 3 years now. It’s not good for the economy nor the bond market.

Inferring that China is a ‘shelter’ from war given a single month’s data as in this article is even bolder imho. We’ll see what happens next months (but I am confident that OP will find something that satisfies their propaganda lust).

The interesting bit is that even the South China Morning Post - a propaganda outlet in China operating under the Chinese Communist Party’s censorship regime - is more critical about the Chinese bond market that Reuters (and Bloomberg, they haven been conveying similar pro-China narratives for some time; this has not necessarily to do with Bloomberg’s collaboration with a range of Chinese institution).

Citing Chinese bond market experts, the outlet says that China’s bond market moves “suggest limited conviction in the reflation narrative”, adding that the “uptick in prices was likely driven more by higher commodity costs than a genuine recovery in demand, which remained constrained by a weak labour market and a prolonged property downturn.” [Here is the source.]

The wsws is a strong source of misinformation and disinformation itself. It conveys the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda and support the war mongering around Taiwan. I don’t support the US and Israel, but this ‘comment’ is outright gibberish. This website is full of fake news.

Well said.

If interested, there is a strong body of research in the meantime how the Chinese Communist Party is spreading its regime to the Global South.

One investigation reveals that borrowing from Beijing is not cheap: whereas a typical rescue loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) carries a 2% interest rate, the average interest rate attached to a Chinese rescue loan is 5%.

In addition, as another study says, Chinese loans come with opaque terms and many clauses that put the borrower at a disadvantage:

We find widespread use of “No Paris Club” and “no comparability of treatment” clauses—that expressly prohibit the borrower country from restructuring their outstanding debts to China in coordination with Paris Club creditors and/or on comparable terms with them. This practice suggests that Chinese state-owned banks are effectively seeking to position themselves as “preferred creditors” exempt from restructuring. More generally, we find that Chinese contracts give lenders considerable discretion to cancel loans and/or demand full repayment ahead of schedule. Such terms give lenders an opening to project policy influence over the sovereign borrower, and effectively limit the borrower’s policy space to cancel a Chinese loan or to issue new environmental regulations. [Emphasis mine.]

A new report reveals many of these hidden structures of Chinese loans in global lending:

In a typical transaction, debtors promise to route their principal commodity export revenues through overseas bank accounts that remain out of public sight and largely beyond their control until the debts are repaid. The cash balances in these accounts, mostly located in China and controlled by the lenders, can be very large; in low-income, commodity-exporting countries, they average more than 20% of annual public debt service to all external creditors.

@randomname@lemmy.org

Sanchez said China should take on a more substantial role with issues including climate change, security, defense ​and the fight against inequality …

China is the greatest bully in Asia and supposedly in history worldwide. It threatens entire populations like Taiwan, Japan, Australia, and many others, sometimes Beijing’s envoys issue what can only be understood as death threats against government officials (like in the case of Japan’s PM). What role would China take in security and defense according to Sanchez?

China in among the country with the highest inequality globally, it’s higher than in any democracies (e.g., in many European democracies inequality is by a third lower than in China), and wealth inequality has been even increasing steadily in the last decade.

Sanchez is fighting a series of corruption scandals at home that threatens his political survival while courting the largest dictatorship in history. It’s really time that he follows Orban’s path.

So China stops its war games around Taiwan now? What does the CCP understand by ‘peace’?

As per Wikipedia citing a DW interview,

Cheng stated her worry that Taiwan under the presidency of Lai Ching-te would become like Ukraine under the Russian invasion. When the interviewer responded that “the dictator caused the war”, she rejected the claim and described Vladimir Putin as “a leader with democratically elected”, blaming the invasion on NATO enlargement. Source - Here is the interview (in Chinese)

She perfectly echos Chinese-Russian narratives.

In the last couple of weeks alone, Bloomberg published a series of articles with, say, similar headlines:

Deutsche Bank Says China Is Energy ‘Winner’ in Age of War (9 April)

How China Is Winning The War With Iran (1 April)

China Can Win Big With Little Treats (29 March)

It is the prolongation of a series of similarly worded headlines with similar narratives over the last years, maybe best presented in one of Bloomberg’s article in December 2025, titled, “Give Up On Winning Against China”.

You’ll easily find these examples and ample evidence of similarly worded headlines by Bloomberg, a media company that has been collaborating with China for some time now.

Examples:

• China Universal Asset Management and Bloomberg Establish Strategic Collaboration
• China Construction Bank and Bloomberg Deepen Collaboration

Does the independent media outlet’s collaboration with China pay off? Who is the winner?

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I don’t know what went wrong. Here I can see the archived link and its clickable.

So here again, hope that helps: https://web.archive.org/web/20260408064343/https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/stanford-university-chinese-spies-china-cxk8gn2mr

The EU and the US both have very strong laws banning impirts of goods made by forced labour. Not good enough imho, but, unfortunately, Canadian laws regarding forced labour are much weaker. Canadian PM Carney wants to make the world believe otherwise. He has been widely criticized for this of late.

This Yoghtos is just a troll frequently spreading hatred and insulting other users while parotting Chinese propaganda. Safe your breathe I would say.

The US is repaying its debt as all others do.

China’s move ahead of the U.S. more broadly reflects a decline in U.S. ratings rather than an increase in China’s ratings. Approval of China’s leadership increased by double digits over the past year in 23 countries (versus 44 showing a similar decrease for the U.S.). However, many of China’s increases occurred in countries where U.S. approval fell.

If such surveys have a meaning at all, it basically says that the U.S. is more and more becoming like China: a dictatorship.

But it makes a good geadline for OP’s propanda.

Oh, and btw,

Germany — which has ranked as the most positively viewed major power for nine consecutive years in Gallup’s trend, spanning the chancellorships of Merkel, Olaf Scholz and Friedrich Merz — receives the highest approval in 2025, at 48%.

@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca

Is there a special reason why you frequently turn to this sort of second-hand intimidation in your posts? Do you think your often misleading and - as in this case here- false information is more credible then?

The national wealth-income ratio increased from 350 percent in 1978 to 700 percent in 2015, while the share of public property in national wealth declined from 70 percent to 30 percent. We provide sharp upward revision of official inequality estimates. The top 10 percent income share rose from 27 percent to 41 percent between 1978 and 2015; the bottom 50 percent share dropped from 27 percent to 15 percent. China’s inequality levels used to be close to Nordic countries and are now approaching US levels. Source

Inequality in China has been further increasing in China in the last 10 years by all comparable standards. Some numbers for comparison can be found here :https://wid.world/world/#shweal_p90p100_z/US;FR;DE;CN;ZA;GB;WO-PPP;CA/last/eu/k/p/yearly/s/false/37.836/125/curve/false/country

As everyone can see, and as evidenced by a strong body ol research, China is among the least equal societies on the global.

Canada’s Finance Minister says he raised the importance of labour standards during meetings with top Chinese officials

What exactly did he raise? Will Canada improve its laws and ban imports made by forced labour?

Canada’s Finance Minister says he raised the importance of labour standards during meetings with top Chinese officials

What exactly did he raise? Will Canada improve its laws and ban imports made by forced labour?