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[Reg]

nao devido ao ocidente que gosta conquistar as coisas...quer conquistar...

ignorando  o resto

isto comecou em 2008


se fossem para ucrania 1 falavam com russos

se fossem afeganistao 1 falavam com paquistao  etc


e nao dividir para conquistar que e mentalidade do ocidente 

todos paises tirados no leste aos austriacos e russos  acabaram com pureza etnica....


agora e contrario ja querem criar estados multiculturais...e conforme da geito

quando no passado deram cabo deles  porque eram rivais...e usaram dividir para conquistar

[Reg]

a russia tinha paises sua volta a prova do dividir para conquistar....

eu desconfio desta desuniao toda agora

[Counter Retail Trader]

a russia tinha paises sua volta a prova do dividir para conquistar....

eu desconfio desta desuniao toda agora

desconfia é do teu cerebro que congelou juntamente com um camarada qualquer cujo nome termina em INE.

[Reg]

 
se isto fosse guerra serio estavam americanos na ucrania  cercados depois pela bielorussia


e continuam na polonia a cocar os tomates


EUA retiram alguns soldados da Ucrânia, mas dizem que apoio militar permanece.
https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/internacional/eua-retiram-alguns-soldados-da-ucrania-mas-dizem-que-apoio-militar-permanece/
quem inventou este guiao  nao e propriamente  gaijos ganham premios de cinema

Secretário de Defesa americano ordenou que 160 soldados, que estavam em território ucraniano desde novembro, fossem enviados para "outros lugares da Europa"


como da para ver isto e GRANDE GUERRA!
A medida, combinada com a retirada de equipe não essencial da embaixada dos EUA em Kiev, é um sinal de crescente preocupação entre as autoridades americanas sobre a segurança dos americanos na Ucrânia.

O Pentágono diz que ainda está apoiando os militares da Ucrânia, apesar dessa ordem.


  depois eu sou retardado

[Reg]

Desde a ascensão do Grão-Ducado de Moscou, nunca foi conquistado por outras pessoas. os mongóis vieram antes do estado da Rússia,

ou seja e por causa das ucranias que russia nunca foi invadida com sucesso

por isso eu falo no czar.....

a russia... sao paises volta russia...
 e nao estado russo nasceu em 1991....  o estado russo de 1991 nao existia hoje dia sem as ucranias a sua volta

[Counter Retail Trader]

Desde a ascensão do Grão-Ducado de Moscou, nunca foi conquistado por outras pessoas. os mongóis vieram antes do estado da Rússia,

ou seja e por causa das ucranias que russia nunca foi invadida com sucesso

por isso eu falo no czar.....

a russia... sao paises volta russia...
 e nao estado russo nasceu em 1991....  o estado russo de 1991 nao existia hoje dia sem as ucranias a sua volta

mas estas a gozar? a Europa nem precisa dos americanos para limpar isso tudo

[Reg]

o que americanos limparam hum....

o que europa limpou ...hum....


pagam mercenerios para fazer afeganistao o maior produtor de cocaina do mundo

limpam o que. pa....

sao ricos..pagam aos outros para limpar mas outros nao limpam  ainda criam e imperio do nacros

eixo do mal secalhar e ocidente nos ultimos 20 anos...porque ficou pior

deram sola agora isto tudo esta fronteira da russia, turquia china etc

ou seja  vao bater porta russia...   

[Counter Retail Trader]

dasseeee.....

Uma organização não-governamental de defesa dos direitos humanos, a Safeguard Defenders, revelou que, pelo menos, duas municipalidades chinesas instalaram dezenas de esquadras informais em vários países de todo o mundo para monitorizar, investigar e repatriar sob coacção cidadãos de origem chinesa.

Três dessas esquadras estarão localizadas em Portugal, mais concretamente em Lisboa, no Porto (explicitando uma morada em Vila do Conde) e na Madeira, e desenvolvem essas actividades ilícitas sem conhecimento das autoridades portuguesas. Pior: há indícios de que essas esquadras, que actuam à margem da lei, se articulam em rede com o designado departamento Frente Unida do Partido Comunista Chinês, departamento responsável pela propaganda favorável aos interesses da China em todo o planeta.

A ser verdade, trata-se de uma revelação gravíssima porque:

1) Atropela direitos humanos de pessoas residentes em Portugal, que, sob ameaça a si ou às suas famílias residentes na China, são repatriados à força;

2) Ameaça a soberania nacional, já que uma potência estrangeira exerce poderes judiciários em solo português sem o conhecimento das autoridades portuguesas;

3) Põe em causa a segurança nacional, visto que temos potenciais agentes de propaganda e de desestabilização ao serviço do Partido Comunista Chinês, sem qualquer controlo;

Hoje, questionado por João Cotrim Figueiredo, o primeiro-ministro disse que nada sabia sobre o assunto. E garantiu que os serviços de informação, tutelados pelo próprio António Costa, não lhe deram qualquer informação nesse sentido.

Um primeiro-ministro que nada sabe sobre o que se passa no território português, mesmo com informação disponível em fontes abertas, é um primeiro-ministro que falha no acompanhamento e em fazer cumprir as mais elementares responsabilidades do Estado.

É o legado socialista: um Estado enorme, que se mete em tudo na vida dos portugueses e falha nas suas funções básicas de soberania e nos serviços mais críticos.

[vbm]

Falta saber se é verdade ou boato alarmista.
Demorei a perceber o que era isso de "esquadra"
informal ou clandestina, mas depois entendi: assim
da espécie das esquadras de polícia, no caso para vigiar
nacionais emigrados no Ocidente, para zelar pela ortodoxia
do comunismo político da China. Realmente, sem religião nem
especial cultura proveniente da História, resta-lhes uma ditadura
policial da nomenklatura no poder, já nem ditadura de classe proletária.
Mas é uma mera suspeita propalada pela net, nada deveras que saibamos
ser ou não já sob vigia dos serviços secretos de informação e espionagem.

Em todo o caso, se é para deixar à sociedade civil mais liberdade e responsabilidade
de cada um, cada grupo, cada classe, governar-se a si próprio, o Estado tem de munir-se   
de mais competência em legislar, policiar infractores da lei, levá-los à justiça, puni-los célere.
E toda essa, verdadeira, revolução a gastar menos dinheiro do que actualmente, e a pagar o que deve.

 

[Counter Retail Trader]

Falta saber se é verdade ou boato alarmista.
Demorei a perceber o que era isso de "esquadra"
informal ou clandestina, mas depois entendi: assim
da espécie das esquadras de polícia, no caso para vigiar
nacionais emigrados no Ocidente, para zelar pela ortodoxia
do comunismo político da China. Realmente, sem religião nem
especial cultura proveniente da História, resta-lhes uma ditadura
policial da nomenklatura no poder, já nem ditadura de classe proletária.
Mas é uma mera suspeita propalada pela net, nada deveras que saibamos
ser ou não já sob vigia dos serviços secretos de informação e espionagem.

Em todo o caso, se é para deixar à sociedade civil mais liberdade e responsabilidade
de cada um, cada grupo, cada classe, governar-se a si próprio, o Estado tem de munir-se   
de mais competência em legislar, policiar infractores da lei, levá-los à justiça, puni-los célere.
E toda essa, verdadeira, revolução a gastar menos dinheiro do que actualmente, e a pagar o que deve.

 

nao tenho duvidas que haja chines e russo , ao tempo....tal como de outros paises  mas de uma forma proposito um pouco diferente

[D. Antunes]

https://expresso.pt/internacional/2022-10-22-Ex-presidente-da-China-escoltado-para-fora-do-congresso-903b2628

Ex-presidente da China escoltado para fora do congresso

Vejam o video!

[Counter Retail Trader]

https://expresso.pt/internacional/2022-10-22-Ex-presidente-da-China-escoltado-para-fora-do-congresso-903b2628

Ex-presidente da China escoltado para fora do congresso

Vejam o video!

quem anda com porcos farelo come 

ou

quem com porcos vive , deita se na lama

[Reg]

  voces nunca se esquecam

quem ganhou foram socialistas vivem no capitalismo

ou seja sao quase todos hoje em dia... hoje dia nao da fazer blocos ideologicos....

ocidente e rei ONG

o resto so anda imitar

ONG sao meio de entrar com politicas dentro de outros paises sem bandeira nacionalista

e clara nem todas ONG sao isto... ha umas UNG so servem taxos e tal tambem



ou seja tem ONG americanas a vigiar chineses em portugal

A Safeguard Defenders é uma ONG especializada na defesa do Estado de Direito e dos direitos humanos, especialmente focada na China e no sudoeste asiático.

  basicamente espiam chineses... e assumem isto
resentemente, através de uma rede desenvolvida em todo o país, conseguem que a organização tome conhecimento de novas tendências e desenvolvimentos da realidade chinesa muito antes de ser percepcionada por governos estrangeiros e órgãos de comunicação social.


Antes da Safeguard Defenders, Peter Dahlin foi director de uma outra ONG local cm sede em Pequim, que funcionou entre 2007 e 2016. A ONG foi fechada como resultado de uma repressão das autoridades chinesas, lideradas pelo Ministério da Segurança do Estado.

[Reg]

hoje dia isto nao sao blocos globais

sao globalistas VS nativistas

quanto direitos humanos.... ainda ha poucos anos passaram por portugal gaijos foram direitos a guantanamo...onde nao tem leis nem tribunal

estado portugues tambem nao #sabe# nada!!!

tanto guteres e barroso  por nao saberem nada tem taxos internacionais


  liberais tem perder narrativa das democracias VS autocracias  porque mundo nunca  foi disney

ha democracias que sao piores que ditaduras...ja deviam ter aprendido isto com primavera arabe..onde morreram milhoes...

[AI Operator]

APEC Leaders Can’t Ignore Xi’s Widening Uyghur Genocide

Xi Jinping’s visit to Ürümchi, the capital of the Uyghur region, in August has sent a chill through the human rights and Uyghur diaspora communities. During his trip, Xi called on local officials to preserve “hard-won social stability” and enhance measures to manage “illegal religious activities.” Xi put policies in place for ongoing crimes against humanity and genocide in East Turkistan, premised on combatting “religious extremism.” And now he is saying that the ongoing repression targeting Uyghurs isn’t harsh enough. This ominous declaration should be seen as a dire warning, signaling darker days ahead for the Uyghur population.

Xi is slated to visit San Francisco in November for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum Leaders Summit. When he meets with the leaders of the 21 APEC economies, which account for nearly 40% of the global population and nearly 50% of global trade, his public declaration that China will deepen its current Xinjiang policies cannot go unchallenged.

Since 2016, the world has witnessed the systematic persecution of Uyghurs in East Turkistan. Reports of mass detentions, forced labor, cultural suppression, and genocidal birth control policies have cast an even longer shadow over China’s human rights record. Despite mounting evidence, the international response has been disturbingly inadequate.

Xi Jinping’s remarks in Ürümchi should serve as a wake-up call: The policies of total surveillance, total assimilation, and universal placement in government jobs are ongoing. Nobody should be taken in by external propaganda purporting to show that everything is normal, saying journalists and tourists are welcome in “Beautiful Xinjiang.” The happy, dancing Uyghurs in the “I’m from Xinjiang” videos in 2023 were preceded by the “new Uyghurs” in the 2021 “Amazing Xinjiang” campaign. But when AFP News tried to inquire about the families of overseas Uyghurs during a recent reporting trip, they were warned away by dozens of plainclothes security officers, toting shovels and hoes.

Visits to the Uyghur region by genocide enablers, such as the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the Arab League, should not surprise anyone. However, it is the turn toward engagement with China from staunch supporters of Uyghur rights like the United States and the United Kingdom that is alarming. As the shock of revelations about internment camps and forced labor has waned, sanctions and condemnations have petered out. Bilateral diplomacy has shifted towards improving “lines of communication” with China.

The shift toward engagement plays right into the hands of the Chinese government, which prefers to operate with its dialogue partners turning a blind eye to its human rights abuses. Even more effective is China’s leveraging of its economic largesse and political power to divide any unified response that would exert meaningful pressure on Beijing.

Moreover, the United Nations, including the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, have been glacially slow to take meaningful action. Despite mounting evidence and OHCHR’s own findings of China’s human rights crimes in the Uyghur region, these bodies have been unable to enact diplomatic protest, let alone bring those responsible to justice.

Indeed, I argue that inaction is normalizing genocide. To address this retrenchment in world attention, the international community must take immediate and coordinated action. This includes:

Increased sanctions: Countries should expand and strengthen sanctions against Chinese officials and entities involved in the Uyghur genocide. This not only holds individuals accountable but also sends a clear message to Beijing.
Mobilization of international human rights mechanisms: UN High Commissioner’s Office needs to act on its 2022 report on “interlocking patterns of severe and undue restrictions on a wide range of human rights.” For Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples, a critical window is closing on turning the findings into multilateral pressure on China.
Pressure on corporations: Companies that benefit from forced Uyghur labor or operate in East Turkistan should face scrutiny and pressure to ensure they are not complicit in crimes against humanity.
Cessation of trade in Uyghur forced labor goods: China’s massive program of state-imposed forced labor for Uyghurs, an integral component of the ongoing genocide, must be addressed in every trade forum, including the APEC Leaders’ Summit in San Francisco in November.
Xi Jinping’s ominous words in Ürümchi are a stark reminder that the Uyghur crisis is far from over. When Xi travels to San Francisco on November 12 for the APEC Summit, APEC leaders must address the elephant in the room. Economic “cooperation” is morally bankrupt if it does nothing to stop genocidal forced labor products in global trade.

The international community must rise to the occasion and act to end economic complicity and moral complacency. Failure to do so will only embolden the Chinese government and ensure that the Uyghur people continue to suffer in silence. The time for action on genocide is always now.

ZeroHedge

[AI Operator]

Why US Businesses Can't Wait To Get Out Of China

Foreign investments are leaving China.

Half of the $250 billion to $300 billion foreign bond investments since 2019 have exited, and U.S. private equity and venture capital investments in China have fallen by more than 50 percent, according to a JP Morgan report last month.

Foreign direct investment into China in the second quarter of this year reached a 25-year low at $4.9 billion, with a year-on-year decline of 87 percent, according to Chinese official data.

Bloomberg and fDi Markets data on new investment projects—a more telling indicator of whether foreign firms are still investing in the country—show a 40 percent drop, to $74 billion in 2020 from $120 billion in 2019, and an additional 45 percent decline to $41 billion in 2022—the lowest since 2010.

Although financial transactions are easy to track without much lag, it may take years for foreign direct investment data to reflect Western firms' diversifying away from China.

For this reason, Beijing might be unaware of how bad things really are as far as foreign direct investment, analysts of the Rhodium Group, a leading research firm on the Chinese economy, warned in a recent report.

“Amidst a broader structural slowdown in China’s economy, the delayed reactions could contribute to further losses in productivity and economic growth,” the report stated.

The implied assumption here is that preventing economic losses is a priority for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). However, some China experts challenge this.

“It's not that Xi Jinping and the CCP leadership hate economic growth—it's just not a priority,” Derek Scissors, chief economist of research firm China Beige Book and a senior fellow at the Washington-based think tank American Enterprise Institute, told The Epoch Times.

“The priority is control over the society, including the economy. So whenever there's a trade-off between economic control and growth, they choose control,” he said.

“And when we say, ‘Oh, you know, you could be growing faster. Why are you doing these things?’ The answer is obvious: It’s because that's not their priority.”

Mr. Scissors and other experts told The Epoch Times that overall economic growth isn’t at the top of the agenda for Chinese regime leader Xi Jinping. Instead, China is, by design, going through a paradigm shift in how it interacts with the global economy and is screening and filtering for foreign investors loyal to Mr. Xi.

As a result, China's overall political and business landscape defies past experience, they said, and Western interpretations will make the wrong assumptions on China—even more so than before.

Communist Party leader Xi Jinping has reversed China’s integration into the rest of the world, a trend that had defined the previous two decades, according to businessman Mike Sun.

When U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo visited China in August, she warned that the country could become “uninvestable” if the unpredictable official behavior, such as raids on U.S. firms, don't cease. This year, Mintz Group’s Beijing office was raided in March, Bain & Co.’s Shanghai office in April, and Capvision Partners’s offices in multiple cities in May.

The Chinese business environment for U.S. companies wasn't always like this.

Mike Sun, a U.S.-based businessman with decades of experience advising foreign investors and traders doing business in China, recalled that the first generation of U.S. investors visited mainland China with a pioneering spirit. He spoke to The Epoch Times using an alias to protect his business in China.

In the early 1990s, he said a Jewish American businessman told him, “I want to be America’s Marco Polo,” referring to the Italian explorer who introduced Europeans to China. The businessman spoke fluent Mandarin and was married to a Chinese woman.

Back then, China was full of opportunities.

If investing in China in those years felt like an adventure, it became a no-brainer the next decade, from 2000 to 2012. One would have been foolish not to invest in China, Mr. Sun recalled.

The crowning glory for the communist regime was the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he said. When U.S. President George W. Bush and his family sat next to Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi at the China–United States basketball game, it became a symbol of the international community's acceptance of the CCP.

China had become the "world’s factory" after it joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. According to World Bank data, its share of global manufacturing value-add rose from 9 percent in 2004 to 22 percent in 2012 and 30 percent in 2022.

But Mr. Xi’s ascension in March 2013 heralded a different decade. In 2015, the leader started his industrial “Made in China 2025” plan, aiming for global dominance in advanced manufacturing sectors such as semiconductors and new energy.

To achieve this goal, the regime encouraged large-scale technology theft from Western countries.

In Mr. Sun’s view, Mr. Xi has reversed China’s integration into the rest of the world, a trend that had defined the previous two decades.

“Xi doesn’t want China to be a second Russia,” Mr. Sun said.

Between 2014 and 2016, Russia suffered a financial crisis because of the sharp price decline of crude oil, a major export, and international sanctions as a result of its annexation of Crimea. Since then, Russia’s growth prospects have remained bleak because of challenges in diversifying its main industries and ongoing Western sanctions, according to European think tank Bruegel.

After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, it was hit with more than 13,000 restrictions. The sanctions have severed Russia from advanced technology sectors abroad and forced the nation to resort again to energy commodities trading to sustain its economy growth, according to findings by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Washington-based think tank.

Mr. Sun said China’s changes have become more apparent in the past two to three years, coinciding with the COVID-19 pandemic, during which Mr. Xi largely completed his consolidation of power.

That’s what Meng Jun, a Chinese entrepreneur, said he experienced.

Mr. Meng had a rubber product business with an annual revenue of $15 million. In 2021, when the rest of the world reopened, his factory in Nanning, the capital of southern China’s Guangxi Province, began to receive orders again. However, he couldn't resume production because of the regime’s COVID-19 lockdowns.

Initially, he was able to bribe local officials so his factory could run at night while other factories had to remain shut. But later, no one would bend the rules because the officials didn’t want to lose their jobs over the possibility that a COVID-19 case would be traced back to an unauthorized factory operating under China’s zero-COVID policy. He lost millions.

He closed the business last year and left for the United States.

ZeroHedge

[AI Operator]

Jon Stewart Splits With Apple Over "Creative Differences" After Refusing To Bend Over On China

The third season of Jon Stewart's The Problem With Jon Stewart was weeks away from taping when staffers learned that production had been halted over "creative differences."

Those differences were reportedly over Stewart's intended rosters of guests and topics, which were to include artificial intelligence and China.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Apple directly approached Stewart and told him that he needed to be "aligned" with the company's views on the aforementioned topics.

Stewart essentially told Apple to go fuck themselves and decided instead to walk.

The NYT reported that Stewart informed his staff Thursday that Apple pushed back on topics relating to China and artificial intelligence. Production on season three was already underway, with filming poised to begin shortly.

Sources tell THR that there had been tension between Apple and Stewart ahead of the show’s third season return over topics featured on The Problem. Those same sources note that Apple approached Stewart and informed the host that both sides needed to be “aligned” regarding topics on the show. Stewart, sources say, balked at the idea of being “hamstrung” by Apple, which threatened to cancel the series. Stewart, sources say, wanted to have full creative control of the series and, after Apple threatened to cancel the series, told the tech company that he was walking away from the show rather than have his hands tied. -Hollywood Reporter

None of the reporting details what exactly Apple's problem was with the AI or China topics, but Apple does rely on the CCP to let sleep-deprived children make all of our wonderful toys, so there's that.

ZeroHedge

[Kaspov]

A China evolui rapidamente:


«Not Married, No Kids: The Rise Of China's 'Single' Culture

Tyler Durden's Photo

by Tyler Durden

Saturday, Nov 11, 2023 - 03:40 AM

While Singles‘ Day was originally conceived as a celebration of people who are not in a relationship, Statista's Felix Richter points out that the growing popularity of a lifestyle that prioritizes personal independence and self-discovery over traditional societal expectations has not come without side effects.

One such side effect has been a steep decline in marriage rates across the country.

Young adults in particular are increasingly likely to delay or forgo marriage altogether, breaking away from the longstanding societal pressure to marry early. While 47 percent of newly married people in China were 24 or younger in 2005, that number dropped to just 15 percent in 2022, with nearly 50 percent of newlyweds older than 30, compared to less than 20 percent in 2005. The reasons behind this shift are multifaceted, encompassing factors such as changing gender roles, increased educational and career opportunities for women and a desire for personal fulfillment outside the confines of a traditional family structure. As our chart shows, the marriage rate in China dropped to a historic low of 4.8 new marriages per 1,000 people in 2022, down from more than double that a decade earlier.

Accompanying the decline in marriages has been the concerning trend of a falling birth rate in China, which also fell to a new low in 2022, resulting in the country’s first population decline in over 60 years. The choice to remain single or delay marriage often translates into delayed parenthood or even a decision to remain childless. Economic considerations, career aspirations and the high cost of raising children in urban areas further contribute to this decline. The Chinese government's efforts to encourage childbirth, such as the relaxation of the one-child policy, have yet to yield a substantial reversal of the declining birth rate.

Infographic: Not Married, No Kids | Statista

You will find more infographics at Statista

So while the rise of the single culture in China is emblematic of evolving social attitudes and individual aspirations, it also raises questions about the long-term demographic and economic implications for the nation. As the number of single individuals continues to rise, policymakers are grappling with the need to adapt to this changing landscape, addressing challenges such as an aging population and potential strains on social welfare systems.»


https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/not-married-no-kids-rise-chinas-single-culture

[Kaspov]

+ 1 artigo curioso acerca da China:


«China's matchmaking mums have a powerful ally: The Party

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A woman crosses a road before posing for wedding photos in Beijing on May 5, 2023.Image source, Getty Images
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Young Chinese are turning away from traditional choices like marriage and children
By Fan Wang
BBC News, Singapore

Chen has been on more than 20 blind dates, all set up by her mother.

Some of the dates have been worse than others, she says, because she has a condition that most men she meets seem unable to accept - she doesn't want children.

"Having babies is very tiring and I don't like babies," says Chen, who's in her late 20s and only wanted to share her last name. "But it's impossible to find a man who doesn't want children. For a man not to have children… It's like killing him."

Despite the string of unsuccessful dates, the pressure to marry has not eased. It's making her nearly "explode", she says.

It is not just Chen's parents who want her to marry and have children. As marriage and birth rates plummet, the Chinese Communist Party is encouraging millions of young women and men to reverse the trend.

Last year, China's population fell for the first time in 60 years, and its fertility rate dropped to a record low. The number of registered marriages, too, hasn't been this low - 6.83 million - since 1986.

Disheartened by a slowing economy and rising unemployment, young Chinese are also turning away from the traditional choices their parents made. The result is a headache for the Party and far from the "national rejuvenation" the country's leader Xi Jinping has called for.
Officials 'don't get the pain'

The concern has reached Mr Xi, who recently gave a speech on the need to "cultivate a new culture of marriage and childbearing". He also spoke of "strengthening guidance" to shape young people's view on marriage, children and family.

It's not that Chinese officials have not been trying.

Across the country, bureaucrats have been mobilised to incentivise young people to get married, and for couples to stay married and have children.

Earlier this year, a small town in the eastern Zhejiang province announced that it would offer couples 1,000 yuan ($137; £108) as a "reward" if the bride was 25 years or younger. It stunned and then angered locals, who called the local government tone-deaf for assuming that such a small amount of money could have an impact on such a major decision.

Elsewhere, officials insisted on a "30-day cooling-off period" for couples seeking separation or divorce. This led to concerns about how this would restrict personal choices, and harm women who face domestic violence.
A woman walks past wedding dresses displayed in a Vera Wang bridal store in Beijing on April 22, 2020.Image source, Getty Images
Image caption,
The number of marriages in China dropped last year to their lowest since records began

In rural areas, where more and more single men are struggling to find a bride, authorities have ordered women to stop asking for high bride prices - a sum paid by a prospective groom or his parents to the family of his wife-to-be to demonstrate his commitment.

Like other "incentives", this one won't work either, says economist Li Jingkui.

Even without bride prices, men are still competing for a bride, he says. "There could be other ways to compete: like houses, cars or just better looks."

Experts say the overwhelmingly male Chinese leadership cannot possibly understand what's driving these choices for young people, especially women.

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China's highest decision-making group, the Party's seven-member Politburo Standing Committee, has only comprised men for decades. The leadership rung just below it - which has more than 20 seats - included a lone woman for the last two decades until last October. Now there are no women in it.

The efforts of these men, and all the men below them, are often seen as out-of-touch and even superficial, often attracting ridicule online.

"The officials in the government basically all have wives," says Mr Li. "They don't get this pain."
Love is no luxury now

Experts believe China's singles population is made up of two unmatchable groups - urban women and rural men.

Rural men are battling economic expectations, such as high bride prices and a secure job that can support a family. And this, in turn, seems to be empowering women in rural areas to take more time in choosing a partner.

"When I went home for Chinese New Year, I felt awesome being a woman in rural China's marriage market," says 28-year-old Cathy Tian who works in Shanghai.

She says she was worried she would be considered "a bit old" in northern Anhui province, where women usually get married by the time they turn 22. But she found the opposite to be true.

"I don't need to provide anything but the man needs to have a house, a car, an engagement ceremony as well as pay a bride price. I felt like I'm at the top of this marriage market."
A family enjoyed the illuminated lanterns to celebrate the Lantern Festival on February 5, 2023 in Shanghai, China.Image source, Getty Images
Image caption,
Young women say having a child is no longer a task - it's a choice

Urban women, on the other hand, say what troubles them is the widening gap between how they view marriage, and how the rest of society views it.

"There is no anxiety inside of me," says Chen. "My anxiety comes from outside."

Unlike her parents' generation, when life was a challenge and love was a luxury, people and women have more options now, she says.

"Our idea now is it's okay to not have babies, and it's no longer a task we must complete."

    The memes that lay bare China's youth disillusionment

Women also note that like the world around them, the government's campaigns focus on women and overlook men's responsibilities as partners.

And the unequal expectations are driving them away from the idea of becoming a parent.

Chen says this is also part of the reason she doesn't want children - watching her friend be a parent. "Her second child is very naughty. I really feel that every time I go to her house, it will explode and the ceiling will be torn down."
A family takes photos as they and others visit a section of the Great Wall during the National Golden Week holiday on October 2, 2023 in Beijing,Image source, Getty Images
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Young unmarried women say they fear the unequal burden of parenting

In China, "raising your kids as if your spouse has died" has become a common phrase among young mothers. It means husbands are not doing chores or sharing the job of being a parent.

"All the married men I know think their responsibility in the family is just to earn money," says a 33-year-old data scientist who did not want to reveal her name.

"Mothers feel guilty for not being with their children, they even think it's not alright to stay out late. But the fathers never have such guilt."

But the Party has shown no indication that inequality and changing expectations are among the challenges they must counter to lift marriage or birth rates.

And young Chinese are making it clear that they will not be wooed so easily by officials.

When talking about the social pressures they face, they often repeat a slogan popularised during Shanghai's crippling and controversial Covid lockdown.

They were words used by a young man arguing with officials against tough restrictions: "We are the last generation."»


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64973186

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+ 1 artigo intressante acerca da China, seguido do respectivo e pertinente comentário do Dr Mamdouh G Salameh:


«How China Increasingly Dictates The Speed Of The Energy Transition

By Tsvetana Paraskova - Oct 25, 2023, 6:00 PM CDT


    China is the global leader in renewable energy spending, but it’s also one of just a few major economies still approving and building coal-fired capacity.
    Further trade restrictions from China could slow down the energy transition due to the Chinese dominance in several key minerals and technology supply chains.
    IEA: slower economic growth results in China’s total energy demand peaking around the middle of this decade.

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No other large energy-consuming country has such an outsized impact on both fossil fuels and renewables consumption than China. Its economic growth and infrastructure build-out in the last three decades have changed the world of energy. But now China is changing and setting the pace of the global energy transition, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in its new World Energy Outlook 2023 report this week.

China’s economic growth could be nearing an inflection point in which the resource-intensive investment in urbanization, infrastructure, and factories may slow down—suggesting lower demand for cement and steel, and possibly for oil and coal, the IEA says.

However, the size, shape, and speed of China’s structural economic change is highly uncertain, which makes predictions about China’s energy demand uncertain, too.

“Our analysis explores some key uncertainties, notably regarding the pace of China’s economic growth and the possibilities for more rapid solar PV deployment opened by a massive planned expansion in manufacturing capacity (led by China),” the IEA said in the report.

China is the global leader in renewable energy spending, but it’s also one of just a few major economies still approving and building coal-fired capacity. Energy security and the need for stable power generation during peak demand to back the growing economy and supply stability precede concerns about emissions. 
Related: Lithium Cermanic Battery Could Reduce Reliance On Critical Materials

China has already reached its goal to have more non-fossil fuel installed electricity capacity than fossil fuels earlier than planned, with 50.9% of its power capacity now coming from non-fossil fuel sources. Back in 2021, the Chinese authorities said they would target renewables to outpace fossil fuel-installed capacity by 2025.

The IEA acknowledges the key uncertainties about China’s energy use, but it seems to bet on structurally lower GDP growth going forward as it revised down the long-term projection of GDP growth in China to just under 4% per year for the period 2022 to 2030, and 2.3% per year for the period 2031 to 2050.

“But slower growth results in China’s total energy demand peaking around the middle of this decade; with stable and then slowly declining demand, clean energy growth is sufficient to drive a decline in fossil fuel demand and hence emissions,” the IEA said.   

“As China’s demand growth slows, clean energy pushes fossil fuels into decline,” is a bold statement from the agency which also predicts global peak oil, natural gas, and coal demand to occur by 2030. 

“In China – the world’s largest coal consumer – the impressive growth of renewables and nuclear alongside macroeconomic shifts point to a decrease in coal use by the mid-2020s,” said the agency.

This is based on the assumption that “China will gradually use its coal-fired power more to provide flexibility and less to deliver bulk energy, though there is inevitably some uncertainty about the speed and degree of this shift,” the IEA notes.

No one, least of all the IEA, has a clear outlook on how much and how fast China’s economy and energy needs will change. The international agency’s wishful forecast that “clean energy pushes fossil fuels into decline” in China is unlikely to materialize any time soon.

Even if it did, China also has an outsized role in the global supply chain of clean energy technology, which brings another set of energy security concerns due to the highly geographically concentrated supply chains for both technology and critical minerals, as the IEA acknowledges. According to the agency’s forecast in the World Energy Outlook, China will have a 79% share of the solar PV supply chain in 2030, 64% in wind power, 68% in batteries, 54% in lithium chemicals, and 72% in refined cobalt.

Further trade restrictions from China and escalating China-West frictions could slow down the energy transition due to the Chinese dominance in several key minerals and technology supply chains. This will raise the already very high bill for industries and governments to ensure the supply of key components to advance the transition away from fossil fuels.

“Energy transitions also bring new risks to energy security,” the IEA warned.

“Diversified investment to meet growing demand can help, but international partnerships will also be necessary.” 

By Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilprice.com

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    Mamdouh Salameh on October 26 2023 said:

    The IEA is living on a different planet. Its energy research and predictions in general are based on wishful thinking and a blind determination to force energy transition at any price. Therefore, they can be totally ignored.

    In less than three decades China became the world’s largest economy based on purchasing power parity (PPP) and the driver of the global oil and energy markets because of its high growth rates. As its population rises and its economy grows it is inevitable that it will continue to have fast growth rates aided by the largest project in history, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

    While China leads the world in renewable energy investments, it will continue to use coal in an increasing rate to generate electricity because of possible decline in hydro power. Moreover, its appetite for oil and gas will continue to soar without which the Chinese economy will falter.

    Dr Mamdouh G Salameh
    International Oil Economist
    Global Energy Expert»


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