That’s an extraordinarily weird comment.

This is temporary, certainly not good, but it’s next to nothing compared to where the pressure in the steel market comes from: China, which produces more than half of the global steel, has been suffering from a sharp overcapacity for a long time now and it aims to literally ‘export’ its problems to the world.

That impact of this policy has been seen for some time: China’s crude steel output came in at slightly less than 70 million tonnes in November 2025, a sharp fall of 10.9% on year (according to official data by the China’s National Bureau of Statistics) and the lowest in two years. It’s a continuation of the downfall in Chinese steel production we have already seen the entire 2025.

Beijing’s economic policy of permanently producing oversupplies hurts not only Europe and the world but also China economically and environmentally. A study published last on China’s iron and steel industry’s CO2 emissions and environmental health burdens for China, for example, estimated that related emissions related to the industry caused over 59,000 premature deaths in China in 2020 alone.

Fast fashion is inherently unsustainable imho, both from an environmental and social point of view. The best we could do is to ban clothing from Shein, Temu, Aliexpress, Amazon, and all the others. Stop buying there. Now.

The New Yorker published two stories on the topic, on The Fed Up Americans Leaving the Country:

Ireland … recently announced that the number of Americans who had actually moved there had nearly doubled from 2024 to 2025. A record number of Americans applied for British citizenship from January to March. And thousands have been claiming German and Austrian citizenship thanks to a rule granting the designation to the descendants of Jews who were persecuted by the Nazis. - [Unpaywalled link for the story.]

The long read on How to Leave the U.S.A. tells stories about people who left for European countries.

Every four years, a group of Americans threatens to leave the country. These proclamations tend to take place in early November and involve Canada. No mass exodus occurs. Moving is hard; moving countries is harder. There are families, jobs, pets in the mix. This time around, though, Americans seem to be acting on their desires. The State Department doesn’t keep close track of how many Americans settle abroad, but immigration lawyers told me that the number of people approaching them about it has gone up since Trump was reëlected. “Anecdotally, there’s a noticeable increase,” Sanjay Sethi, an American attorney who recently relocated to Geneva [Switzerland], told me. “What’s been so surprising is how much I’m hearing in my personal life—the desire to leave or get another passport.”

Very interesting not only for U.S. citizens who consider to emigrate. Here is the unpaywalled link.

Nah, that’s just a buzzword. China has been closing down its domestic market in recent years more than ever. The Chinese party-state is deeply rooted in nationalism, among others. Other markets will increasingly react to that.

It’s not outdated, but it’s true that MAN received a much larger order. What is criticized is that BYD gets an order at all. But I added the information to provide a broader picture.

@ricesoup@lemmy.ml

Only one language, one culture, one nation? Now I understand why you tankies hail China and Russia’s genocidal policies and suppression of minorities.

You should really rethink where you get your information to get a bit closer to the 21st century.

As an addition fyi: There are 56 ethnic groups within China speaking around 300 (minority) languages, and Russia has almost 200 ethnic groups speaking more than 100 minority languages today.

So when is China leaving Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia? And when does Russia leave its colonies?

didn’t know the context of the interviewed

Didn’t you even read the text below the video in your own link? This is so obvious bullsh*t that one can only assume you are one of these ‘tankies,’ especially after reading your post history here. That reflects your thinking as some has already said.

What about, ha? I personally would say EU firms in China have more ‘stuff’ from Chinese supply chains than from the US’, no?

The US becoming more and more like China.

Look at how China subsidizes and how the EU does. These are two different things.

It’s somewhat related:

After 16 years in prison for the murders of a lawyer and a journalist, former Russian neo-Nazi activist Yevgeniya Khassis is free and talking

The Ford CEO has again said someting … yeah, five months ago he said that “China’s car industry is the most humbling thing he has ever seen”, two months ago the same Ford CEO and some Western executives were “terrified” when coming back from China over the countries EV car industry, and a year ago he was shocked how good China’s EV industry is. Now the same Ford CEO is criticizing Europe.

Just a detail: all these posts are coming from OP with just the same anti-European and pro-China content over and again.

Below the map in the linked site (here again: https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/) there are all countries listed according to their assigned group, from ‘critically insufficient’ to ‘Paris compatible’. Just click on the button of the country that interests you and you’ll see all the data. For example, here is Germany: https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/germany/

The rankings of Climate Change Tracker and Climate Action Tracker are very similar as it exposes the countries’ level of (in)action. As all ratings they’ll have some limits, but both work with a lot of data and provide a very good overview imho. The CAT breaks down each country’s rating when you search for the particular country, including each EU country or the bloc as a whole.

Yeah, here is some sort or rating which governments are headbutting even more than others … https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/

The US president and his ally in the Kremlin want to use 100bn euros* of Russia’s frozen assets to be invested in a venture to rebuild Ukraine, while 50% of the venture’s profit would go to the US (according to point 14 of Trump’s initial ‘peace plan’ for Ukraine).

*Additional information: Total frozen assets of Russia that will eventually be used as collateral for the EU preparation loan amount to 140bn euros.

Second addition: In addition to the EU, UK and Canada are also working on a scheme to hand frozen Russian assets to Ukraine.

That’s a global phenomenon,unfortunately. Researchers found PFAS chemicals in tap and bottled water in major cities across the UK and China., just to provide an example.

But are there European countries banning such second jobs?

Many European nations decided to ban MPs from having second jobs precisely for this reason.

I agree with what you’ve said including on the ban of MP’s second jobs, but are there countries in Europe that ban such jobs? It may not be as easy as in the UK, but it’s not completely banned anywhere afaik. Am I mistaken?