It’s at least a step in the right direction. Canada needs to diversify its trade, and Taiwan has a lot to offer. Any country, particularly a democratic one that accepts the rule of law and is, therefore, reliable, must be highly welcome.

Ah, sorry. Now it’s done.

Done. I just didn’t do it before as I think this is not really an opinion, the article mentions a lot of facts and is citing sources, but yeah …

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Oh, another new account, just 14 days old, but permanently in defense of China.

The Brazilian government just blacklisted BYD over forced labour at BYD’s plant there. Among others, the authorities listed some details at the BYD plant in Brazil:

• Chinese workers worked seven days a week, including public holidays.

• Chinese workers’ passports were locked in an administrative cabinet labelled in Mandarin as “security”; some had been held since August 2024, leaving workers without access to their own travel documents on weekends and outside business hours

• Armed private security guards enforced a lockdown, sealing the gates after dinner and forbidding workers from leaving without supervisor authorisation

• Workers were housed in containers where beds lacked mattresses or rested on foam padding roughly three centimetres thick

• Food was stored on the floor alongside personal belongings, with cockroaches and rats moving through sleeping areas

• In one facility, 31 workers shared a single bathroom, forcing them to wake at 4am to queue before their 5.30am departure for the site, and the kitchen was deemed unfit for use by inspectors

• On the construction site, there were only eight chemical toilets for the entire workforce, and workers had no sunscreen despite visible skin damage from prolonged sun exposure

• Workers received only a nominal living allowance in Brazil, in some cases less than US$200 a month, disbursed only with supervisor approval, and investigators found that around 60% of their wages were withheld and remitted directly to accounts in China

This is by far not everything.

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In related news today:

Brazil blacklists BYD for slave labour conditions at its biggest plant outside China - (Archived link)

Brazil’s labour ministry on Tuesday added Chinese electric vehicle (EV) giant BYD … to a registry of employers found to have subjected workers to conditions analogous to slavery, limiting access to state financing and increasing reputational risks in its most important market outside China.

There is even a Wikipedia article on the BYD Brazil working conditions controversy for those interested.

It’s apparently a case Brazil has been investigating since 2024. Australian outlet ABC published an article including a short video that gives a glimpse of the conditions under which Chinese workers lived.

Will Mr. Sanchez this time talk about human rights and forced labour?

@sicilian@lemmychan.org

It’s nice that you do, but hopefully you can understand that most Westerners don’t.

This is rubbish.

In a nutshell, it’s part of anti-Western, anti-democratic propaganda that makes you believe that the Western world is a mega-monolithic self-interested superstate that lives at the expense of others. Stylized as ‘the enemy’, it is then used by dictatorships to justify the suppression and exploitation of their own peoples.

And the US / Israel is the aggressor in the war he’s commenting on.

He is commenting on the UNSC resolution and its failed adoption due to a veto by Russia and China.

Yeah, that’s likely the single most dangerous threat imho: thinking that one is immune. Because no one is. We urgently need more education in this field I guess, and supposedly not only in Canada imo.

As MrMakabar has already said, Israel and the US.

This has, however, nothing to do with the fact that Russia is the aggressor against Ukraine.

And it is completely unrelated to the fact that, no matter what your opinion on the UN resolution is, Zelenskyy criticizes the resolution’s failure in the UNSC due to Russia and China’s veto. This is, again, not the same as “denounc[ing] the UNSC for not launching a military operation against Iran”.

Should the UN also launch a “defensive mission” to protest Russian oil transport and infrastructure against Ukrainian attacks?

A reminder that Russia is the aggressor in this war.

And a second reminder, escorting merchant and commercial vessels to ensure their safe passage through the Strait (which is what the resolution aimed at) is one thing, launching a military operation against Iran (which is what your title suggests) is another.

You may have a different opinion, you may oppose or support the resolution, but the headline creates a false impression of what is happening and what Zelenskyy said.

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That’s a misleading headline to say the least.

Russia and China vetoed resolution on the Strait of Hormuz in the UN Security Council.

The draft resolution sought to strongly encourage States interested in the use of commercial maritime routes in the Strait of Hormuz – which lies between Iran, Oman and the United Arab Emirates – and to “coordinate efforts” defensively, to contribute to ensuring the safety and security of navigation there, including the use of escorts for merchant and commercial vessels.

Zelenzkyy is criticizing the UNSC’s failure to adopt the resolution (submitted by Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates), indirectly criticizing Russia and China’s veto.

These are the facts.

Now saying, ‘Zelensky denounces the UNSC for not launching a military operation against Iran’, is an absurdly weird framing imo. Why? Because even if this were true (which is not as Zelenskyy didn’t say that), it doesn’t tell the whole story. The headline creates a hopelessly distorted narrative that has nothing to do with reality.

What you are describing has nothing to do with the forced labour system in China. The comparison is disingenuous.

And it is by far not only a “right-wing talking point” as you say, as it is exactly China that creates such a system. China’s Xi Jinping has been frequently denouncing “welfarism” as it “makes people lazy” (you’ll easily find evidence across the web).

The expected reaction. You and your sockpuppet-like accounts use this community as a dumping ground for authoritarian propaganda while attempting to insult all others in an extraordinarily primitive way.

Another cheap propaganda bs from the resident tankie troll.

This is a weird headline.

The only posse here is the series of absurdly false propaganda narratives spread by you and your ‘Canada bad, China good’ club here. The comments you made here are, again, false.