I think almost anything in the Economist is paywalled (after some time to allow for Googlebot to capture the content).

They’ve already done that to a large degree which is why VW and others are already feeling down:

• Beijing and other big cities use a lottery system to limit car registrations. The majority of lottery tickets are already for BEVs and hybrids.
• Exhaust emissions requirements already go beyond Euro 7, making it impossible to sell most built-for-EU cars in China.
• There is some kind of NEV (New Energy Vehicle) incentive and afaik, that only goes to Chinese cars. I’m not sure whether it’s enough for the car to be built in China or whether it needs to be from a Chinese-owned brand as well.

There is, but it’s a Swedish politics blog and even they threw in that they couldn’t check the claims. So not exactly a good source. See this thread: https://lemmy.world/comment/12445221

With Northvolt purportedly(!) demonstrating that even EU battery production can apparently be thwarted by a Chinese tooling company sabotaging, there’s probably some reason to panic.

I suspect though that the only way for EU-based car companies to find out how to refine battery materials and to produce battery cells, at scale, is to lure Chinese companies to the EU and learn from them for the next couple years. They should know that strategy very well — it’s exactly the way their Chinese JVs worked out.

Fucking fucked shit fuck

You may be overdoing it. :)

Your comment had two pieces, and my comment was contesting the second part only, namely this:

it is not them who should be kept out of the territory of another sovereign state

… because clearly, they’re arming terrorist groups in another sovereign state specifically for the purpose of hurting yet another sovereign state.

The biggest threat to peace in the region right now is not Iran,

While I am at it: I find ascribing the role of a “biggest threat” a bit pointless in this situation. Yes, Israel is clearly killing a lot of people right now. A lot more than either Hamas or Hezbollah on their own ever could.

Imo, the situation in the Middle East results from a pointless series of provocations where people chose to escalate rather than de-escalate.

Oh it does, but I did not want to mod yesterday.

You appear to be ignoring Iran’s support for terrorist organizations in other countries.

founder and leader used to be a settler on the west bank

That’s not exactly true, according to Wikipedia:

Because he did not have enough money to travel to Australia, his preferred destination, he went to Israel instead[7] and volunteered for a year in a moshav, Tomer, on the West Bank.

I’m German, that much is correct.

And yet, billionaires are currently building bunkers in rural Poland when they could actually do something to make their own future massively better.

While I can’t stop you, please do not do that.

As to your criticism of overmoderating: I am not removing every off-topic discussion either. What I am sometimes doing is removing comments that just say “Good.” or “Bad.”, etc., especially if it’s the third such comment under that particular post. I don’t find these helpful. I am open to no longer doing that.

As to posts from you that I removed:

• There was a meme early on — which we ultimately decided is content better suited for !YUROP, the rule was made in response to your meme, I think. That was really unfortunate.
• You also posted a video of right-wing ultras shouting “Palestine” — which I removed I wasn’t sure what message to take from it, as it was basically uncommented. I also wouldn’t want to moderate in a community of uncheckable raw footage where I don’t know whether it is manipulated. — Quite honestly, I don’t know what mods in war-related communities like the various versions of !Ukraine do.

E.g. “It must be a genetic thing” or “Gee, they just have a genocidal culture” or …

The way you phrased it also suggests the direction the discussion will go: It’s not going to be about genocides, it’s going to be anti-German, although genocides are unfortunately fairly common among humans. (Of course, “genocide” is a somewhat mushy politically-applied term as well which doesn’t help.)

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Now I won’t do it. 🐧

Your comment was literally just “What is it with Germans and genocide?” Besides the one interpretation you suggest, there are a lot of other possibilities.

In any case, if a thread had started from your comment, do you think it could have been a productive one?

“We have not decided not to supply weapons. We have supplied weapons and we will supply weapons,” Scholz told parliament

So the word “soon” that is in the title — did that come from Scholz or is it an invention on the part of Reuters?

Yep. That’s what it says. And it generally means the time span from Jan 1 to Dec 31 of the year mentioned there.

[You seriously downvoted me for that? What the hell.]