The US and China: Who is better?

Just stumbled upon this image and it says more than thousands word imo.

News from October 2025: China overtakes US as Germany’s top trading partner

Maybe it’s just me, but there are so-called ‘news’ all over the place - everywhere, but particularly on Lemmy - that frequently hail China for all kinds of things, although nothing is new (and often it’s not even true).

Some of these ‘China great’ articles appear over and again with more or less the same content, sometimes just with slightly different framing. To me this feels like cheap propaganda. I firmly believe this is not organic but part of an orchestrated disinformation campaign, not in the least as many of these infinite loops here on Lemmy come from OP.

Isn’t the Ford CEO a big China fan who has been praising Chinese EVs for years?

… since the outbreak of the war in Israel, Beijing has classified Israel as a “high-risk area” and imposed a ban on any new Chinese investments in the country.

The South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong-based Chinese propaganda outlet, published just last week that China, Israel continue to collaborate in science and tech despite unrest in Gaza.

While Beijing supports Palestine and has a fractious relationship with Tel Aviv’s closest ally, cutting-edge innovations keep them together.

In a report published just now in February 2026, Lloyd’s Bank explicitly says,

Chinese investment in Israel has grown rapidly in recent years, particularly in software, IT services and consumer electronics.

Trade between China and Israel is also at an all-time high since the outbreak of the pandemic, and this hasn’t notably changed since the Gaza war (with Chinese exports to Israel have always been higher than imports from Israel, so Israel runs a trade deficit with China).

It’s important to note that this Chinese Ballet Vision fund cites losses of its investment since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, and it seems this is the real issue here. China is heavily investing and trading with Israel. Nothing has changed.

This is not much more than propaganda, the numbers paint a different picture. China-Israel business ties are stronger than ever, despite Gaza.

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Several current and former staff at this propaganda medium either work or have worked also for Russian propganda media like RT and Sputnik: Anya Parampil, Alex Rubinstein (the latter has been arrested during Trump’s first inauguration protests in 2017 in the U.S.), Kit Klarenberg, Mohamed Elmaazi, Dan Cohen, Rania Khalek and Jeremy Loffredo (see also here).

Some of these guys also work or have worked for the Kremlin.

Regarding the topic it is noteworthy that according to reports based on leaked documents, now Gray Zone managing editor Wyatt Reed received funding from Iranian broadcaster for “occasional contributions to its programming in 2020 and 2021” while he was working as a correspondent for Russia’s Sputnik news outlet.

And this is only a tiny sample of what you can tell about this medium that stands very close to authoritarian states.

This is not about making money but about national security. China does the same btw, you can’t acquire stakes in Chinese infrastructure as a foreigner. Australia can payout China for its share, but there must be absolutely no discussion that Australia regains control imo. The untrustworthy trading partner here, once again, China. They don’t play by the rules.

You should never sell critical infrastructure to a dictatorship. I hope Australia goes ahead and corrects this mistake.

Yeah, the regime in Pakistan has been standing very close to China for a long time now, sliding deeper into autocracy.

Iran’s army defends the Mullah’s against the country’s citizens. Just because Trump exploits the situation for its own gain does not mean the regime in Iran is better by any means.

I am not a legal expert, but the Eagle S case is not yet been finally resolved, and there are similarities as well as differences between the two - as, for example, in this article. It is also suggested to amend the current criminal law and a higher degree of collaboration, as one expert in the linked article concludes:

If we assume that this is not a case of damage but rather some kind of hybrid operation, criminal law may have a role to play. But perhaps it is justified to try to prevent this kind of activity in advance. And, of course, for the sake of prevention, it may be justified to engage in cooperation between states (the Baltic countries, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, and so on), as is apparently already being done.

What is a solution?

We saw that already a few months ago.

When did they seize a ship, arrested and prosecuted crew members? has is never happened so far.

Finland seized the ship and arrested crew members. The investigation is still ongoing, according to reports.

I can’t see what your comment has to do with the article.

Well, I don’t know this author, but I don’t see what it has to do with the Chinese Communist Party strategy to weaponize criminals for its own purposes.

Would you accept it if your government says how many children you must have?

I am not here to win an argument, but insulting the victim the way you do it while at the same time saying that China is just “inflexible” is unacceptable imo.

If ICE is deporting migrant families with a valid visa, is the U.S. then “inflexible”? Is it then a migrant father’s ‘reckless choice’ to have entered the country with his children? (To be safe: The answer is, no, it is the U.S. state that is reckless.)

The most weird point with your comment is that you even offend the victim calling him a “dipshit” and a “zealot.” How out of touch can you get.

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They are citing Chinese state-controlled media. This comes straight from the CCP.

In December 2024, a video was circulating on Chinese social media that shows how China should conquer parts of Siberia up to lake Baikal.