In addition to what @Curiositymonger@reddthat.com has said, there is also the issue of working conditions under which these cameras have been produced, supposedly with forced labour/slavery-like conditions.

You’re right, that’s waste of time. The topic here is a suspected Chinese espionage against Canada, we should not continue in this distraction.

There is also a report about how fights are breaking out at Russia’s gas stations as the fuel crisis spreads

Russian media have been reporting on a surge of conflicts at gas stations across the country. The fuel crisis, triggered by Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian oil facilities, has forced people to wait for hours at gas stations. Some drivers try to cut the line, which has at times led to brawls. The situation is compounded by the fact that some stations have taken a liberal interpretation of the requirement to give priority to official vehicles. As a result, local officials in some regions have begun jumping the line, and in Chita, participants in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and their family members were added to the list of those exempt from waiting. All of this has fueled widespread public anger.

I feel many of the short stories in the linked article perfectly fit the ‘not the onion’ comm here ;-)

Just stumbled upon this report stating that China is reducing incentives for academics to submit papers to international journals over leak concerns, national security issue,

The national security concerns have become a new factor in Beijing’s long-running campaign … China’s Ministry of State Security last month accused a researcher of leaking “important technical details” while trying to win acceptance of papers by international journals and academic conferences …

China’s science policy has been shifting from emphasis on global collaboration and publication in international journals towards tighter controls on how knowledge is shared overseas. The change comes amid geopolitical tensions and the country’s rapid technological advance …

China’s security ministry in June warned that submissions to international conferences, publications in foreign journals, cross-border academic exchanges and overseas collaborative research must all “strictly” follow the requirements of “review before public disclosure” and “approval before external release” …

One Chinese scholar in materials science said he had stopped submitting research to foreign journals because it had become “difficult” to pass security reviews, which he said were “unclear and insufficiently objective” and part of a process that discouraged overseas publication … [Here is an archived version of the article.]

So, again it is primarily China where knowledge is not free. Your argumentation in this thread can only be interpreted as an attempt to distract from illegal Chinese activities. Nothing what China does is about free knowledge, let alone for the benefit ‘of all of mankind,’ It’s rather the exact opposite.

@TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca

This is, apparently, rubbish. China is illegally hacking into foreign system with malign intention, while at the same time maintaining behind what is called a Great Firewall. The Chinese party-state shows no willingness to share anything or use knowledge in a way that it “benefits all of mankind” (not even its own citizens, btw).

From your comment here and your comment history it is reasonable to assume you are - again - distracting from the Chinese government’s malign intentions by attempting to blame Canada and the West.

One of my favorite incidents in that respect happend in 2024, when the China-linked Salt Typhoon group hacked the US broadband providers and breached the US wiretap systems. Just put more back doors into Western systems, and Moscow, Beijing & Co are celebrating.

No, they are not the only ones, but, as Steve Trent is cited,

“In the past, we’ve seen South Korean vessels there, we’ve seen Taiwanese, we see European vessels there doing bad things. But now when you look across that region, it is overwhelmingly Chinese”.

And the problem is not geographically confined to Africa. As the investigative platform The Outlaw Ocean states, the projects investigations run from “China’s reach into local waters” to well-resourced story how “Uyghurs forced to process the world’s fish”.

“China has expanded an armada of far-flung fishing vessels. And this has come at a grave human toll.”

The site offers well-researched - and, unfortunately, devastating - reports, including documentaries.

Yeah, the US official isn’t even named in the ‘article’ … but such headlines serve OP’s apparent intention to convey anti-democratic, pro-China and pro-Russia content, while their posts’ content is largely poor by all standards.

The ST has some good articles, but I wouldn’t trust them too much. Singapore ranks 123 in the Word Press Freedom Index, behind Niger and Mali, and only 1 rank ahead of Zimbabwe. The paper also doesn’t do any deeper investigations.

It’s not the worst medium on the globe, and for simple facts that can easily be verified (like the one in the linked article) it may be fine, but for critical issues it unfortunately can’t be trusted imo.

This may be true for consumer electronics, but not for many components relevant in this context.

India is a major driver of coal power in the world, second only to China.

Global coal plant commissioning in 2025 was heavily concentrated in China, where new coal capacity additions reached a decade high of 78.1 GW. India also saw a rebound in coal commissioning compared to recent years with 10 GW added, although additions remained below mid-2010s levels. Globally, capacity added in 2025 totaled 97.4 GW, the second-highest on record behind only 2015 (107.3 GW). [Archived]

Outside of China and India, coal plant commissioning remained comparatively low at 9.2 GW.

India is a major driver of coal power in the world, second only to China.

Global coal plant commissioning in 2025 was heavily concentrated in China, where new coal capacity additions reached a decade high of 78.1 GW. India also saw a rebound in coal commissioning compared to recent years with 10 GW added, although additions remained below mid-2010s levels. Globally, capacity added in 2025 totaled 97.4 GW, the second-highest on record behind only 2015 (107.3 GW). [Archived]

Outside of China and India, coal plant commissioning remained comparatively low at 9.2 GW.

So at least we can agree that China is a threat to Europe and by no means neutral as it claims, because it is supporting the aggressor in this war. It’s a warmongering country which can also be observed in the Indo-Pacific Region.

I am not a military person, but training Russian forces by a country that claims to be ‘neutral’ sounds strange to me.

Yes, the Trump administration is as unreliable as China’s. That’s a shame.

It is bad because out of China’s 56 officially recognized ethnicities, 55 are suppressed, and this law makes everything worse.

Your remarks are false and misleading.

China maintains army support bases not only in Cambodia but also in Djibouti and Tajikistan.

It is also noteworthy that China pursues a dual-track strategy across the Indo-Pacific, escalating military and diplomatic pressure on some countries (of late particularly on Taiwan, Japan, and the Philippines) while deepening economic ties with other Asian countries, although these economic partnerships benefit often exclusively China.

In addition, China’s activities in the Indo-Pacific has been growing in recent years with the most recent warning coming from New Zealand’s intelligence service over Chinese military forays in the Pacific,

“We anticipate that Chinese actions, such as the PLA-N [China’s People’s Liberation Army navy] task group that transited the Tasman Sea in February and China’s launch of an inter-continental ballistic missile into the Pacific in September 2024, will be a persistent feature of our strategic environment.”

We must also note that China has increased its military spending from 700 billion dollars in the 1990s to almost 3 trillion dollars in 2025, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. It is by far the largest military spending increase during peace time.

HRW is also criticizing the U.S., just fyi. As I write this comment, it’s even the first story of its site hrw.org .

Guess your remark is just whataboutism referencing Chinese state media.

This article is a good example of how China’s propaganda works. As one recent investigation has found,

China’s goal [of its propaganda operations] is to build a positive image of itself. Freedom House describes this as a long-term strategy aimed at “telling China’s story well”. At its core is the image of China as a successful, trustworthy and indispensable partner.

Oh, and the article is referencing to the U.S.-China Business Council, a researcher at Renmin University of China in Beijing, and Zhu Min, a Chinese economist and former deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund who also held senior positions at the Bank of China and the People’s Bank of China.

Such articles are pure propaganda.

This article is a good example of how China’s propaganda works. As one recent investigation has found,

China’s goal [of its propaganda operations] is to build a positive image of itself. Freedom House describes this as a long-term strategy aimed at “telling China’s story well”. At its core is the image of China as a successful, trustworthy and indispensable partner.

Oh, and the article is referencing to the U.S.-China Business Council, a researcher at Renmin University of China in Beijing, and Zhu Min, a Chinese economist and former deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund who also held senior positions at the Bank of China and the People’s Bank of China.

Such articles are pure propaganda.