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There is another source related to the topic:

With US funding freeze, China nonprofits are facing extinction. They need emergency assistance. -- (Archived version)

An entire ecosystem of vital China-related work is now in crisis. When the Trump administration froze foreign funding and USAID programs last week, dozens of scrappy nonprofits in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the US were immediately affected. Staff are losing their jobs; some organizations face imminent closure due to lack of funding; others are paring back their programming.

In many cases, these organisations provide our last window into what is actually happening in China. They do the painstaking and often personally risky work of tracking Chinese media censorship, tallying local protests, uncovering human rights violations, documenting the Uyghur genocide, and supporting what remains of civil society in China. They provide platforms for Chinese people to speak freely; they help keep the dream of democracy in China alive. I’m not listing the names of any specific organisations at this time, because some prefer not to disclose that they receive foreign funding. Beijing believes funding that supports free speech and human rights is interference by ‘hostile foreign forces’.

As China’s President Xi Jinping has squeezed Chinese civil society and expelled journalists, information from inside China has got harder and harder to access. The 2017 Chinese foreign NGO law crushed US and other foreign nonprofits based in China. Some moved to Hong Kong or elsewhere. The spending freeze may deal them a death blow.

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@Jin008

I asked for reliable sources about China, and all you get is a propaganda site and two YT links. Honestly?

@pancake

The best thing you can do for yourself is to avoid the communities where you get such stuff.

@pancake

I mean, how could those restrictive laws have passed in the first place if most people in the region were against them?

As someone already said, the answer is obvious but you may have (intentionally?) ignored a simple fact. The Chinese government pursues a dictatorial policy, it doesn't matter "if most people in the region were against them" as people have no say.

@Geobloke@lemm.ee

So what is a reliable source for China?

Only anecdotes from questionable sources

What is a good source about China?

?

The unions in China are not much more than a mouthpiece of the CCP. They have nothing to say.

This is not whataboutism as forced labour is not limited to cotton and the fashion industry. There is much evidence for this.

Yes, what makes this even worse is that modern slavery is also a big issue in the self-defined 'socialist' countries like China.

Deepseek is welcome in Europe as all others, as long as it complies with EU's GDPR and the law: A quick reminder that Deepseek is being probed so far in Italy (where it's prohibited), in France, and Ireland. We'll see whether other countries follow.

The latest evidence about forced labour in China has emerged in Brazil at China's BYD factory where authorities identified "textbook red flag of forced laour."

The Chinese workers hired by BYD contractor Jinjiang in Brazil had to hand over their passports to their new employer, let most of their wages be sent directly to China, and fork over an almost $900 deposit that they could only get back after six months' work, according to a labor contract seen by Reuters.

The three-page document, signed by one of 163 workers who labor inspectors said were freed from "slavery-like conditions" last month, includes clauses that violate labor laws in both Brazil and China, according to Brazilian investigators and three Chinese labor law experts.

The list is long if you do research.

There should be a solution to this once they both agree on mutual independence.

with claim to all China's territory.

What does that mean? Taiwan doesn't claim 'all of China's territory' ...

Yes, the Vatican is also silent on China's supression of religious groups, including catholics.

'There is no longer a safe place to be a Christian in China' - report

The Chinese government is increasingly cracking down on state-sanctioned churches as well as underground churches, leaving no "safe place" for Christians, according to International Christian Concern.

A new report by ICC tracks persecution of Christians in China since July 2021 and records 32 cases of arrests and detainments, five raids on Christian schools, and 20 cases of the Sinicization of churches - where churches are forced to align their faith with the social and political messaging of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The ICC said that exact numbers were likely to be far higher because of the challenges of receiving information from China.

@jet@hackertacks.com

I personally believe this is some sort of political rhetoric. Marcos knows well that China won't stop its aggression.

@NutinButNet

@Scheisser

As an addition, the South Korea privacy watchdog is also to ask DeepSeek about personal information use (after Italy and Ireland announced the same some days ago).

South Korea's information privacy watchdog plans to ask DeepSeek about how the personal information of users is managed, an agency official said on Friday.

The country's Personal Information Protection Commission will be sending a written request for information to the operators of the Chinese artificial intelligence model soon, the official said.

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There's a related report focusing on the Serbian prime minister's resignation:

Serbia’s PM Milos Vucevic resigns amid Chinese contractor controversy -- [unpaywalled link]

Vucevic was mayor of Novi Sad before becoming prime minister in elections last April. His successor as mayor also resigned on Tuesday. Protesters claim the Chinese consortium responsible for renovating parts of Novi Sad station had bypassed safety regulations with the ­assistance of corrupt officials.

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There is a growing perception that the president [Vucic, who is now about to decide whether to form a majority government or hold a snap parliamentary election] is trying to quash democratic freedoms in Serbia and turn the country back towards Moscow, despite ­Belgrade’s formal efforts to join the European Union. Serbia is a candidate to join the bloc but must first normalise relations with its neighbour Kosovo, which broke away from Serbia after a Nato intervention in 1999 that brought an end to Slobodan Milosevic’s brutal crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists.