The Iran war may ‘fueling China’s clean energy surge’ (don’t know what the Trump-Xi talks have to do with it), but China has not displaced coal, the most polluting fossil fuel.

China consumes over 50% of global coal supply, supposedly because coal is the only fossil fuel it doesn’t have to import and it wants to maintain energy self-sufficiency. In January and February 2026 alone, China added 20 gigawatts of coal-fired power capacity.

This partly explains why China is not on track to meet its 2060 carbon neutrality goal, according to climate think tank, Carbon Action Tracker. And it will not get better, according to the Chinese Communist Party’s recently released 15th five-year plan: compared to the 14th five-year plan, China’s goals for non-fossil energy additions would see China’s annual green energy additions fall by more than half in the next five years, while at the same time, fossil fuel energy consumption would increase by 8-10%,

This is about to reverse the slow-down in fossil fuel energy consumption during the 14th five-year plan period.

But OP is spreading their propaganda.

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What are reliable sources in your opinion to examine China’s genocidal policies?

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Instead of questioning sources, you could just name sources on China’s genocidal politics that you think are reliable. Where are they?

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• Russia’s losses amount to 65,000 soldiers dead or injured over the last two months alone

• Russian fatalities in Ukraine in the four years of the full-scale war are five times greater than all Russian and Soviet wars since World War Two combined

• Moscow’s losses in Ukraine are now more than 17 times greater than the Soviet Union’s losses in Afghanistan (1979-1989) and 11 times greater than Russian forces killed in both Chechen wars (1994-1996, 1999-2009)

• In January, Zelenskiy said 50,000 Russian losses per month would be “the optimal level” to ensure Russian losses in Ukraine became unsustainable for Moscow to replace with new recruits

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What is the difference between Russia and the US?

Just this week, Kirill Dmitriev, Putin’s “economic envoy” who also serves as CEO of Russia’s Direct Investment Fund, pitches joint US-Russia projects of 14 trillion USD, contingent on a peace agreement in Ukraine and the lifting of Western sanctions.

Also this week we heard that Gentry Beach, a US investor with close ties to the Trump family, signed an agreement with Russia’s energy giant Novatek already last autumn to develop natural gas in Alaska amid Western sanctions against Russia.

Trump’s negotiators for peace in Ukraine are Steven Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, two real estate developers and investor. What do they negotiate?

If such polls are useful at all then only to distract from reality. That helps autocratic regimes as they make autocratic regimes like Russia and China look as the lesser evil. It’s not true, though.

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Spain under Sanchez’s government has been ‘courting’ China for some years now, and the prime minister is intensifying it of late. Unfortunately, this has less to do with a strategy aimed at benefiting the Spanish economy and its people imo but rather with Sanchez’s fight for political survival. Sanchez is facing corruption scandals involving his brother, his wife, and close political allies of this socialist party. The recent resignation of a police chief over accusations of rape is adding to Sanchez problems. He needs some distractions it seems.

This statement makes no sense. China’s mercantilism - pushing for trade surpluses in practically all industries - wouldn’t even work if pursued by all countries (a trade surplus for everyone is logically impossible, and the attempt doesn’t end well as we have seen in Europe 300 or so years ago).

Beijing is subsidizing some sort of a zombie economy as many companies would long be shut down without massive state subsidies that go well beyond what can be considered reasonable. In the EV industry, for example, only 15 of 129 Chinese EV brands are expected to be profitable by 2030, according to a report from last year.

The US and China are artificially creating economic imbalances, it’s just that one is doing it mainly by tariffs and the other by deliberately producing oversupply.

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Just read and wanted to post the same story. Here is an archived version: https://archive.ph/YNOqG

Chinese propagandists spread that false news heavily also here on Lemmy (you’ll easily find the posts), despite the fact that even a quick research using easily available data has proven otherwise.

The Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post is a propaganda medium under the censorship rule of the Chinese Communist Party. This is not a credible source.

I firmly believe that China wants both a weak Russia and a weak Europe, or at least a Europe that is distracted by the Ukraine war. Beijing wants the war to prolong as long as it gets, but they don’t want neither side to win imo.

In a letter to the Financial Times entitled “The scenario that economic warfare experts fear the most” was enlightening, Eric Golson, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Surrey int the UK, provides valuable insights about why China support Russia, and possible consequences as well as necessary reactions by the UK and West:

… Despite the public displays of unity between Xi and Putin, China has a vested interest in a prolonged conflict. Like the US, it benefits from a weakened Russia, allowing Beijing to expand its geopolitical influence while Moscow remains distracted and depleted.

The scenario which concerns economic warfare specialists most is a Russian failure in Ukraine followed by internal Russian fragmentation, continuing the imperial disintegration that began in 1991. In that event, China could expand north and east, extending influence into oil and gas-rich regions such as Kamchatka, Sakhalin and parts of the Sakha region. These are territories China once held under the Qing dynasty. Control of this energy would strengthen China’s global position and reduce its vulnerability to pressure over Taiwan and the South China Sea. This is a plausible outcome if the Ukraine war drags on, yet there is little evidence of serious contingency planning in Whitehall or Washington … [Archived]

China should stop supporting Russia.

Yeah, that’s great ‘news.’

Just two months ago, in December 2025, the same news has been published by the same outlet and written by the same author (see here).

Reuters new agency reported about that already in November 2024.

And this is by far not everything. The web is full with it. This same story has been appearing in the various outlets for several years now, mostly citing a ‘new’ study or ‘Chinese state media’ reports so that there is a reason to present it as ‘new.’

And it’s not the first time that OP is repeatedly posting the same ‘news’ over and again, just with a different framing, and obviously only to make China look good and to promote its propaganda.

The statements come from an Iranian senior official. He said forces were given

“full authority and a blank check to attack, with the aim of creating maximum fear to deter the resurgence of protests.”

And the senior official speaking at the meeting was presenting

assessments by security bodies that sharply contradict the government’s official figures on the killings.