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The CEO of Volkswagen, Oliver Blume, is calling on France and Germany to collaborate to protect the European automotive industry against the expansion of Chinese manufacturers, emphasizing that our future is not predetermined and that it is essential to find common solutions to ensure competitiveness. #Volkswagen #industriaauto #China (translated)

The Paris Motor Show showcases the challenges faced by the European automotive industry in light of growing competition from Chinese manufacturers and emphasizes the need for a unified European response to maintain market leadership and sovereignty. #PariserAutosalon #Automobilindustrie #Elektroautos (translated)

On the eve of the Motor Show, Emmanuel Macron reaffirms European preference in the automotive sector in the face of increased competition from China, which exports 55 million vehicles per year compared to only 12 million for Europe. #PréférenceEuropéenne #MondialDeLAuto #IndustrieAutomobile (translated)

The author advocated for the establishment of French sovereignty over digital matters, the transmission of ideas, and artificial intelligence. He also stated, mentioning the UN, China, and the pope, that international control of artificial intelligence was necessary. https://t.co/81OFi5d8YG #SouverainetéNumérique #IntelligenceArtificielle #ContrôleInternational #FR #CN (translated)

Mona Keijzer wrote that Dutch companies also make super fibers that protect soldiers, including in shrapnel vests. According to her, the Ministry of Defense still uses fibers from China nonetheless. She said she asked the state secretary when the Ministry of Defense would fully choose Dutch production. https://t.co/OWrDqT6ZO4 #Nederland #Defensie #Productie (translated)

The article describes Germany's dilemma in dealing with China, exemplified by the battery factory of the Chinese company CATL in Thuringia, which symbolizes a mix of investment enthusiasm and potential economic risk despite looming trade conflicts. #Handelskrieg #Batteriewerk #Investitionen (translated)

Emrah Erken criticized the UN Human Rights Council and Navi Pillay. He wrote that the body had condemned Israel for human rights violations a total of 116 times since its founding in 2006, while China, Turkey, and Qatar had not been condemned even once. The United Nations, he claimed, had turned human rights into a weapon against the West, particularly Israel. Pillay served as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014. During this time, the Human Rights Council never condemned China, Erken wrote. UN Watch and former UN employee Emma Reilly accused Pillay of having passed the names of more than 50 dissidents, including Uighurs, to China under her leadership. Additionally, Pillay stayed away from the Nobel Prize ceremony in 2010 in honor of the imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. Erken further wrote that Pillay later led a UN commission of inquiry that accused Israel of genocide and previously signed calls for sanctions against Israel. In 2012, she criticized the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for its Muhammad cartoons, describing the drawings as malicious and intentionally provocative. Critics also accused her of opting for appeasement and restrictions on freedom of expression rather than defending it in the debate over Muhammad cartoons. Erken called it a shame that Pillay would receive this year's Nobel Peace Prize, and expressed opposition to post-colonialism, the "Woke Left," and Pillay. #Menschenrechte #UN #Israel (translated)

Clément Molin stated that Donald Trump's announcement regarding the purchase of diesel from Russia revealed the failure of his administration's foreign policy. He wrote that, despite his promises, Trump had not ended any wars, except for those that were already over, and that the war against Iran had failed, particularly politically, damaging the image of the United States and the global economy. Molin also claimed that Trump had repeatedly failed in Ukraine and that the United States had lost a significant part of its influence there. According to him, Trump’s actions towards Canada and Greenland had brought Europeans closer together, while his pivot to Asia had not materialized: it had discontented most of America’s allies in the region and he had been humiliated by China. He also presented the abandonment of Middle Eastern allies as a sign that the United States was no longer seen as a reliable partner by many of their allies. Domestically, Molin considered Trump weakened, believing that he had not improved the daily lives of the Americans who voted for him, particularly due to the war against Iran. He finally wrote that the purchase of diesel from Russia served Vladimir Putin's interests, while adding that Trump might not receive the promised stocks due to Ukrainian strikes and that the operation would have little effect on the global economy. #PolitiqueÉtrangère #Trump #Russie (translated)

The author wrote that Hamas celebrates the Nobel Peace Prize for Navi Pillay. He labeled Pillay as anti-Semitic and accused her of accusing Israel of genocide and denouncing Uighurs to the Chinese government. He ultimately called the award a joke. https://t.co/vwpTM1JISA #Friedensnobelpreis #NaviPillay #Hamas (translated)

Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te emphasizes on the National Day that his country will not give up its freedom despite Chinese aggression and appeals to the international community to advocate for peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific. #Taiwan #Nationalfeiertag #Freiheit (translated)

The Folle Histoire regretted that Mao did not settle the issue of the Kuomintang in 1949, believing that it would have simplified the current situation. According to the author, the party was no more commendable at that time than the Chinese communists, but it no longer ruled Taiwan, and Chiang Kai-shek died at the same time as Mao. The author added that Taiwan has since become a democracy to which its population seems attached and said he finds it hard to understand why some wish for its forced attachment to the People's Republic of China. He felt that this amounts to applying the principle of the right of peoples to self-determination in a variable manner. He also wrote that Taiwan has been a thorn in China's side since the 1950s and that the United States fully plays on this situation, while specifying that the relationships between Washington and Taipei are more complex. #Taïwan #Mao #Kuomintang (translated)

A recent study shows that the European automotive industry is experiencing massive declines in investments in future technologies; nevertheless, European models in the segment under 50,000 euros offer a better price-range ratio than Chinese electric cars. #Automobilindustrie #Elektroautos #Zukunftstechnologien (translated)