This is not a ‘brain drain’ from Taiwan because of poor labour conditions. Chinese companies - often concealing their identities and pretending to be Taiwanese - are trying to poach away tech talent. Your comment reverses the meaning of this article if I may say so.

The archived link works fine here.

The annual assessment of threats posed by neighbouring China, Russia and North Korea calls for Japan, constrained for decades by postwar restrictions on military activity, to harness technology, to fund startups and use more commercial components in weapons production.

It’s sad that we must build up defense, but with neighbours posing ongoing threats there is no other choice, unfortunately.

You’ll find multiple very reliable sources across the web with simple searches. Regarding the the Center’s ties with the CCP, Wang’s book about Chinese narrative ‘models’ or and this multiple functions in the Chinese party-state’s bureaucracy. The latter is even widely cited in Chinese state media.

The linked video is apparently an interview with Zoon Ahmed Khan, analyst and fellow at the Center for China and Globalization …

The Center for China and Globalization (CCG), based in Beijing, is a member of an alliance of similar organizations, coordinated by the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party.

The CCG was jointly founded in Beijing in 2008 by Wang Huiyao, a Chinese State Council advisor who is still the organization’s president, and Mabel Miao, the current vice-president and secretary-general. They are the authors of a book, which deals with the question of “how to create new narrative methods and models” for China.

Wang Huiyao is also associated with the United Front Work Department (UFWD), a networks of groups and key individuals that are influenced or controlled by the Chinese Communist Party to advance the interests of the Chinese party-state.

Wang plays multiple policy advisory roles in China in addition to counselor for the State Council (appointed by Premier Li Keqiang in 2015), e.g., as honorable vice chairman of China Association for International Economic Cooperation (CAIEC) under the Chinese Ministry of Commerce. He has also served as a director of the China Overseas Friendship Association, an external name for the Ninth Bureau of the UFWD of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. Wang is also vice chairman of the Western Returned Scholars Association, which is under the jurisdiction of the United Front Work Department.[

This is a very tiny summary of the Center for China and Globalization and its founder. You’ll easily find multiple sources about this organization and its founders.

As everything else related to the CCG, the linked video is nothing but a propaganda film by the Chinese government.

“Planners have set a deadline for coal consumption to peak no later than 2030

Dude, do you understand the difference between ‘to peak’ and ‘to phase out’?

That aside, even if the coal’s share of the power mix was less than half in China in June, the total volume of coal-generated electricity has increased. This is not good news.

But there is no coal exit strategy in China.

And let me say that it’s not that you are wrong. We all tell bullshit from time to time. What’s absolutely weird and unacceptable is your way to communicate and your tonality. It’s this complete disconnected world view and often ridiculously false narratives paired with a weirdly stubborn I-know-it-better-than-anyone-else attitude.

I end this discussion now. Believe whatever you want.

China continuing their trajectory to start phasing coal out in 2030

China still lacks a coherent coal exit strategy. There is also no clear commitment in the current 15th five-year plan to call a halt to coal expansion (while it says that fossil fuel energy consumption would increase by 8-10%, reversing the slow-down in fossil fuel energy consumption during the 14th FYP period). This comes form the Chinese Communist Party.

You are making unfounded statements out of literally nothing, sometimes even in direct contradiction to the Chinese government itself. What you are saying is complete fantasy.

The way to turn everything into a “China good” narrative just to keep the propaganda going is really hilarious.

China’s coal production fell in June by almost 10% only as a result of a coal mine explosion in the Shanxi province in late May. As the country is temporarily not able to produce enough coal itself, it increased its June imports by more than 30% (while coal production in June fell just 10%).

In the first half-year 2026, the 1.7% increase of Chinese coal imports perfectly matched the country’s 1.7% production decline (which was, again, only due to a coal mine explosion rather than a deliberate policy decision).

Overall fossil power generation in China rose 0.5% year-on-year in June and 2% in Q2.

Nothing here is ‘good’.

China is still by far the world’s largest coal producer and consumer, and the country’s economy is still heavily reliant on coal and other fossil fuels. It will have to be seen whether this ‘milestone’ is sustainable or an effect of China’s slowing economy.

Meanwhile, the share of coal in electricity generation in the EU fell from 16% in 2022 to 12% in 2023, and it’s still going down.

You can criticise both approaches just fine - and you should.

The vast majority of such comments here on Lemmy are just whataboutism. It works only in one direction: If you criticize China, someone comes up with the U.S. or the EU or the ‘West’, but it never goes the other way around. And it comes mostly from accounts that never criticize China. It ends up being a "The West bad, China bad okay’ stance.

I wished we could avoid whataboutism.

You overestimate the surveillance state in Europe. This is not China.

The two countries may have a shared future, but prosperity sides only with one country (and it’s not Thailand).

Between 2013 and 2024, Thailand’s exports to China grow from USD 27 billion to more than USD 35 billion, +22%

In the same period, Thailand’s imports from China grew from USD 35 billion to more than USD 80 billion, +128%.

Thailand’s trade deficit with China grew by a factor of six in the last decade, a pattern we observe we almost all of Beijing’s ‘partners’.

They also have universal healthcare.

While almost all citizens are covered by a basic health insurance, public health insurance generally only covers about half of medical costs, with the proportion being lower for serious or chronic illnesses. China’s universal health care insurance is by far behind many Western systems.

This was Chinese propaganda, perfectly timed around International Workers’ Day on 1 May. It wasn’t a law, though, but a court ruling that spread across media back then, although it has been widely misinterpreted.

The Chinese court ruling doesn’t change that trend [of automation moving from blue-collar to white-collar industries], Moshe Lander, an economics professor at the Canadian Concordia University said at the time:

Indeed, the Chinese ruling doesn’t forbid companies from using AI to automate certain roles held by humans […] Workers, the ruling says, “should also understand the strategic development needs of enterprises, continuously update and improve their professional skills through continuous learning, proactively adapt to the changes in artificial intelligence technology, promote the efficient application of AI technology in production practices, and foster a win-win situation of personal career growth and efficient enterprise development.”

Lander said the ruling, which was issued ahead of China’s Labour Day on May 1, was likely a messaging and “self-preservation” exercise for the ruling Chinese Communist Party given the potential widespread impact of AI-led labour disruptions.

“There’s so many potential people that could be caught up in this that the risk of civil unrest, the risk of regime overthrow, is probably much more paramount to them than concern for the actual worker itself,” he said.

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The article is paywalled. It’s not the first time that OP is posting only headline in favor of China without a content.

Many US-based scientists have been moving to other countries over Trump’s crackdown on research funding.

Nature reported:

The move [ Omar Yaghi leaving the US] comes as the administration of President Donald Trump continues its attempts to slash US science spending and limits international research partnerships. Some nations, including China, have responded by trying to lure US talent with the promise of money and support. Earlier this year, for instance, France announced that it would award funds to dozens of US scientists relocating there. China has been wooing international researchers with talent-recruitment programmes, and some of its cities and provinces are even offering researchers lump sums and monthly allowances to relocate within their borders.

It was just a valid remark, it’s no so clear. All good I would say.

I admit this is may not be a typical post for this community, but it’s not about Taiwan but also about China.

So should I delete it? Maybe the moderators and other users can’t comment whether or not they expect such news here.

A quick remainder that this is not only limited to the EU.

Among the larger economies, China has been increasing its business ties to Israel significantly. Bilateral Israel/China trade rebounded since 2023 and in 2025 reached a record high (including Hong Kong).

China benefits more than Israel, as the growth is heavily asymmetric. While Israeli imports from China rose by 25 percent between 2023-2025 to more than USD 16 billion in 2025, Israeli exports to China plummeted by 40 percent to less than USD 3 billion, resulting a huge trade surplus for China.

China is the biggest exporter to Israel with some 25% of Israeli imports coming from China, more than double the US volume. So China makes good money in Israel, too.

In addition, Chinese companies continue to participate in the construction of huge projects critical to the Israeli economy.

I didn’t mean to call you out. What I wanted to say is that although the system may be imperfect, it is better than in dictatorial regimes celebrated by Novara Media.

This is a textbook example of selection bias by a propaganda medium. They single out 1 measure out of 34, publish “the West bad” tonality, and then hail autocratic systems like the one in China as the solution, although the welfare system and labour rights there are catastrophically worse. This is an essential part of disinformation warfare.