Taiwan is not alone, vice president says after breakthrough Europe trip

"Taiwan is not alone. We have more and more like-minded friends around the world who are willing to walk with us,” she said. “And we will continue, with confidence, pragmatism, and firm steps, to show the world Taiwan’s resolve, goodwill, and the power of our democracy.”

Buon compleanno al nonno!

Such numbers are not very meaningful if you don’t have any context how these accidents happened imho. You also need to apply a much longer time frame if you want make any inferences. For example, one incident such as an explosion in a big factory could dramatically increase the number of a country’s fatal occupational injuries or deaths dramatically. It may also depend on the industries in a country (some industries bear a higher risk of deadly accidents than others).

In 2023, the year after the linked statistics, Malta’s fatal accidents went down 1.65, for example.

It would also be good to have a global comparison, not in the least because many European companies produce in factories in the Global South, but most governments in Asia, Africa, and South America don’t release any data, unfortunately.

Such ‘incidients’ have been occuring frequently with products from Temu, Shein, and the like. I am wondering why something like that never happens with products bought, say, at local shops or other points of sale where strict product safety laws apply?

There are a lot of problems in Germany. But this issue here is made in China. It is an example for a failed economic policy in China, not in Germany, that has been hurting its domestic Chinese as well as foreign markets. Even the German unions have been warning about that.

How is German stuff ‘overpriced’?

There may be a lot or reason to criticize German economic policy of recent decades, but this is here a failed Chinese policy. The major issue is there, not here.

China’s subsidization rate is ten times that of OECD countries. In addition to government grants and below market borrowings, measures include subsidized energy prices and preferential tax treatment for steel firms.

Holy makerel, that’s a lot 🕷️ 🕸️

The ‘blood bath’ is the term a manager of China’s BYD literally used to describe the Chinese car market …

This is from July 2025.

This is not limited to Germany. China, for example, is far ahead in this regard. Many producers have gone bankrupt in recent years or halted productions, the domestic oversupply is hurting the Chinese industry (with even Chinese managers warning literally of a ‘bloodbath’ in the industry).

China plays a role here, too. They need foreign markets to get rid of their structured overcapacity due to a hopelessly nationalist economic policy we have likely not seen since the 18th century’s European mercantilism.

@AlexLost@lemmy.world

You lost your bet. The Norwegians also tested a Dutch model, and it hasn’t had that feature.

That aside, China is not exactly among the countries with the friendliest governments. It should be clear that no one can want someone else to have control over its infrastructure. And, yes, China is not the only problem. The point is that here in the Lemmyverse you can criticize everyone, but if you criticize China there comes some whataboutism.

Yeah, when we are older we have seen more in Europe and China (and hasn’t Confucius portrayed an old age as the summit of a long life?). Who knows what happens. It’s hard to tell the future if the US is doing things.

What does that mean? And what has it to do with the linked report and what I said? This makes no sense.

Do you have anything that fosters your statements?

That aside, China has been doing exactly that for decades, and this practice has intensified in recent years and even months.

In principle I’d agree, but I have a nitpick: The laws must say that those that built infrastructure must be European countries with their HQ in Europe (not foreign-owned subsidiaries with European HQ).

Accountable based on what laws?

On the laws we have in European democracies that can be changed and adapted as needed (unlike in China, where this can’t be done).

it doesn’t matter much to an attacker if the remote operated backdoor to shut down these busses is put there by a Chinese or

It does matter, one major reason being that the European supplier operates under European jurisdictions and is easier to be held accountable.

European company (which would likely be using Chinese tech for that anyways).

Wherever that’s the case, it must apparently be changed, one major reason being national security (the same reason why China is blocking European and other non-Chinese vendors in its domestic markets, btw).

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No, this is not a ‘Chinese’ problem, but as a European I would rather have this problem with a European supplier than with a Chinese supplier for having control over the trains on the continent (or my car, or any technology). But I agree that there shouldn’t be remote access in the first place.

Yeah, the linked report is pretty clear about that and some other important points regarding this incident. The title is grossly misleading imo.