Thank you for the conversation.

This is a list of words, these are not metrics.

they’re worst on almost every metric

Which metrics?

My or any government other than China’s have nothing to do when Chinese firms ignore safety, labor and other regulations. This is pure whataboutery.

As an example among countless others of your so-called ‘unintentional consequences,’ this is from 2012, when the one-child policy was still in place and there was outrage after Chinese woman forced to abort in seventh month

A woman in the western [Chinese] town of Ankang posted a gruesome photo after she was forced to have an abortion in the seventh month of her pregnancy. After the photo spread across the Internet in China, authorities in the Shannxi province have announced that they are sending a team to investigate, and will “deal with the case seriously in accordance with the law.” […]

Feng told a Caixin reporter that she was forced into the abortion because she can’t afford the 40,000 RMB ($6,300) penalty imposed by the local family planning department […]

Feng Jianmei said that on June 2 more than 20 staff from the town’s family planning department came to her home and arrested her. On the way to the hospital, as she resisted, she said she was beaten by the authorities.

During the injection, lethal to the fetus, none of her family was allowed to be present. When her father-in-law heard the news and rushed to the hospital he was prevented from entering the obstetrics ward. […]

Done.

As an addition:

Sex-selective abortions over the past four decades in China – (Study, published February 2025)

China now faces multiple challenging demographic and public policy problems that have emerged from four decades of sex-selective induced abortions […] The annual proportions and number of selective abortions [meaning that female fetuses were aborted much more often than males] rose in the 1980s with the strict family planning policy […] In China, the long-standing preference for sons, easy access to sex-selective technologies, and the spontaneous fertility decline have led to the continued practice of selectively aborting female fetuses, despite its prohibition. As a result, the imbalanced sex ratio may take years to normalize.

exacerbated in China’s case by the now-revoked One-Child Policy’s unintentional demographic consequences

These ‘unintentional demographic consequences’ were predictable, as the sex ratio became skewed toward males. Parents in rural areas were allowed a second child if the first was a daughter. In addition, having a girl became highly undesirable in China at the time, resulting in a rise in abortions of female fetuses,

Another effect was that the births of subsequent children after the first one went unreported or were hidden from authorities. These children- who, according to the authorities, should not have been born- were and still are banned from healthcare or free education, from travel or even from such simple things like using a library. The number of such children is not known, estimates have ranged from the hundreds of thousands to several million.

All this is very bad, and the authorities knew all this.

As the article says, it’s a tragedy an shame for our human race that something like that still exists in the 21st century. According to the 2023 data, the most recent available, the world’s leading executioner is China as per Amnesty.

Amnesty International record­ed at least 1,153 exe­cu­tions in 16 coun­tries – a 31% increase from the 883 exe­cu­tions in 20 coun­tries in 2022 – mark­ing the high­est total since 2015 but the low­est num­ber of exe­cut­ing coun­tries on record with the orga­ni­za­tion. As in pre­vi­ous years, exe­cu­tion totals do not include the esti­mat­ed thou­sands of exe­cu­tions car­ried out by the world’s lead­ing exe­cu­tion­er, China, where exe­cu­tion data is con­sid­ered a state secret; secre­cy prac­tices and chal­lenges access­ing infor­ma­tion in Afghanistan, North Korea, Palestine, Syria, and Vietnam also cre­at­ed dif­fi­cul­ties in iden­ti­fy­ing min­i­mum totals.

Edit title for clarity. Thanks.

Germany says ‘blackmail’ of Ukraine will bring more war

Germany’s foreign minister Annalena Baerbock says Europe must put pressure on the US to stand by its European allies and warned against forcing Kyiv to surrender […] Baerbock’s statements were similar to those of other European leaders discussing how to approach likely changes to transatlantic relations during Trump’s second term.

A person being “detained” could literally just be a traffic stop or any other interaction with a police officer.

No, a traffic stop or an interaction with a police officer isn’t a detention. We are talking here about people who are wrongfully imprisoned for several years.

The vast majority of these people are wrongfully detained after what is called a “closed door trial”. Essentially, this means that often not even their lawyers know what they are accused of. Very often, for example, authorities say it is for “espionage”, though it remains fully unclear what this alleged espionage would have been.

You’ll find a lot of credible reports from very reliable sources. During the pandemic, the situation in China regarding this practice is said to have worsened.

[Edit typo.]

Just read the article and about China’s new ‘guidelines.’

Btw, there are around 10,000 foreigners wrongfully detained in China, most of them are not officially named by their countries.

Could be, I read ‘slams’, but it’s not much difference anyway :-)

Not sure if I understand you right, but unless they do some A/B testing my headline above is the original one. I didn’t edit.

I don’t know what this rant is about, but it has nothing to do with the posted article, at least that’s apparent.

I’d be careful to produce new drugs in China.

‘Ineffective’ generic drugs fuel rare public anger in China

Public anger in China over concerns raised by doctors that generic drugs used in public hospitals are increasingly ineffective has led to a rare response from the government.

Doctors say they believe the country’s drug procurement system, which incentivises the use of cheap generic drugs over original brand-name pharmaceuticals, has led to costs being cut at the expense of people’s safety.

A lot of local political leaders in the Balkans are aligned with China and Russia. This has nothing to do with the fact that China and Russia spread disinformation.

@eureka@aussie.zone

It’s amazing that you are citing the Chinese Ministry but could not find the Australian government’s response.

The Australian Government has expressed its concerns to the Chinese Government following an unsafe and unprofessional interaction with a People’s Liberation Army – Air Force (PLA-AF) aircraft.

On 11 February 2025, a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft conducting a routine maritime surveillance patrol in the South China Sea experienced an unsafe and unprofessional interaction with a PLA-AF J-16 fighter aircraft.

The PLA-AF aircraft released flares in close proximity to the RAAF P-8A aircraft. This was an unsafe and unprofessional manoeuvre that posed a risk to the aircraft and personnel.

Judge keeps Musk’s DOGE from further digging into US Gov’s spending

Citing potential “irreparable harm,” US Federal Judge Paul A. Engelmayer Saturday blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing specific records within the Treasury Department, thus acquiescing to a request from New York Attorney General Letitia James and 19 States under Democratic rule.

The plaintiffs contended Musk’s team accessing this data could pose risks to cybersecurity and violate federal law by potentially mishandling or exposing sensitive personal and financial information of millions of Americans.

Engelmayer also ruled that any data already accessed by DOGE must be destroyed immediately. This injunction is in place until at least February 14, 2025, when further arguments involving national security, privacy rights, and political motivations, will be heard.