Wasn’t that a couple of days ago the same VW story?

We must say that the entire industry is in crisis, not just Volkswagen. In China, only three carmaker are profitable (BYD, Xiamoi, Leapmotor), and all three show shrinking profits. This is despite Chinese brands benefiting from tremendous subsidy regulations that have never been available for their global competitors, a cheap workforce through forced labour regimes, which allows them to produce massive overcapacity that Chinese brands then need to sell globally due to a shrinking domestic Chinese market. And not to forget overly long payment terms as suppliers in Chinese value chains often wait up to 10 months for getting paid (the average for European value chains is 5 to 8 weeks).

China’s overcapacity is a decisive reason for the entire sector’s crisis imo.

Good. Lithuania just signed an agreement with Taiwan, too.

The particular danger with Chinese citizens stems from China’s national legislation that obliges virtually every citizen to cooperate with the country’s intelligence services. The main reason for rejected visa applications from China, according to the research, are therefore also security concerns.

The article falls short of what exactly the collaboration is about. Let’s hope Germany doesn’t hold joint military drills with the UAE like China does.

The war this man has died in is in Europe. Russia is in Europe, particularly the capital Moscow.

There’s not only Trump who wants to destabilize Europe and the EU but also two other like-minded foreign governments.

There are also Chinese sponsored politicians as we have seen in the not so distant past, but I guess the two groups overlap anyway.

Your comment is not true.

German carmakers (or any non-Chinese companies in any industry) are not even allowed to run a subsidiary in China. They always need a Chinese partner with whom they create a joint venture. The Chinese partner would then hold the majority of this joint venture, and it then uses Chinese supply chains. The parts are sourced in China.

This is, for example, why Volkswagen exited its joint venture with Chinese company SAIC a couple of years ago after the German company couldn’t reliably prove that the supply chains in China were free of forced labour. The problem simply was (and still is) that Chinese supply chains are highly untransparent.

(The only exemption from China’s rule to force foreign companies into a joint venture with Chinese companies is Tesla. The U.S. carmaker has no Chinese partner.)

Far-right parties, Maga ideology and Kremlin money …

We must not forget the money from the Chinese Communist Party …

Marriage of Convenience: How European Far-Right and Far-Left Discovered China

European far-right and far-left political parties, though ideologically opposed, are finding common ground in their alignments with China, echoing Beijing’s narratives and raising concerns about foreign influence and manipulation.

The procurement rules apply to everyone, and many public (and private) administration offices in the EU and its member states have already begun moving to Linux and other Open Source tools.

You can look it up at the tracker. In the U.S., for example, a large trading partner for the EU, the EU’s share is 2%.

Generally, the EU’s share is relatively low compared to countries like China where environmental standards are much lower.

I don’t think they’re particularly worried about competition.

This is a joke, right?

Every day more or less the same story by OP. The entire industry is in crisis, not just Mercedes-Benz. In China, those three show shrinking profits. This is despite Chinese brands benefiting from tremendous subsidy regulations that have never been available for their global competitors, a cheap workforce through forced labour regimes, which allows them to produce massive overcapacity that Chinese brands then need to sell globally due to a shrinking domestic Chinese market. This overcapacity is a decisive reason for the entire sector’s crisis imo.

@atro_city@fedia.io

Trump’s plan to build a fence on the Mexican border is comparable with Finland’s Russian border fence?

@bad1080@piefed.social

What kind of trolling is this? Go to the site and read the narratives there.

The comment refers to OP’s link in the body of the text (there is a link to a wsws./org page).

This is not spam, this is true.

The World Socialist Website is a Chinese propaganda site that support the Chinese Communist Party, including its aggression against Taiwan. Some may say that it fits to the topic as the Chinese government support Germany’s far-right as we know, but this wsws/org is not a reliable source of information. This is a pure propaganda source.

unless the EU tracks every citizen at every move

It is China that ttracks every citizen at every move, not the EU.

But this here is about tracking supply chains. And there is absolutely no doubt that it is possible (it’s ridiculous to question that even in 2026). All the tools have long been there.

You need the software and the data across the entire supply chain, of course. Any EV maker (or other companies) that don’t come up with the data should be banned from entering the EU, or, a less stringent measure, pay a carbon tariff. The EU’s CBAM is a first step in this direction.

Lol. Lmao even.

The world needs to do this for effectively fighting climate change as China’s supply chains fail as shown in the linked study once again.