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But the article says, the core factors are economic.

The article says the factor are economic and cultural. For example, it reads that “online, young people openly discuss their frustrations with societal expectations […] Hashtags related to singlehood, career focus, and discussions around marriage trends regularly go viral, amplifying the voices of those who feel pressured to conform to traditional life paths.”

Even so, as they have built so many surplus apartments, the [real] prices must drop

The ‘surplus apartments’ are the result of a real estate crisis that, among others, has cost a lot of money. Many Chinese has lost their live savings. In the meantime, many experts (inside and outside China) are afraid that the problems in the property sector could severely hurt the financial and banking system and the whole economy in the long run.

I wonder how many years before they are trying to sell the Chinese dream to migrants from Africa or elsewhere.

Regarding migrant, especially from Africa, I suggest your read a release by a rights group (2023), or a very informative expert video (19 min, here is the archived link for this video). The video is from 2022.

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No stress. I guess things like that can’t be posted often enough as more people (hopefully) sign the petition :-)

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I guess the agenda of X, WeChat and Douyin, as well as of the of Chinese Communist Party that usually censors everything which is remotely critical of the Chinese government, is obvious.

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Yeah, it’s not easy. But is there another option?

The German state of Schleswig-Holstein is doing the same. Here is also a good podcast by Nextcloud (one of the state’s partners) if interested.

Open source and Nextcloud in government: Insights from Sven Thomsen, Schleswig-Holstein’s CIO – (podcast, 55 min)

They also discuss Munich in the podcast.

It is certainly a long way, Schleswig-Holstein says it’s a “10-year journey into open source”, but there is no alternative imho.

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Yeah, I didn’t want to change the original title, but it is right. In the EU the public debt remains quite stable.

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A related article on what is known regarding Russian sabotage activities in Europe:

How and why Russia is conducting sabotage and hybrid-war offensive – (Archived link)

Across Europe, we’re seeing more confirmed or suspected instances of Russian sabotage. It is part of a broader hybrid war campaign against NATO countries, aimed at eroding support for Ukraine and damaging Western cohesion […]

Russia has conducted arson attacks in Poland, Germany, Lithuania, Latvia and Czechia. Other reported sabotage attempts include flying drones over Stockholm airport, jamming of Baltic countries’ civil aviation GPS systems and disruption of French railways on the first day of the Paris Olympics. Facilities linked to supplying Ukraine have also been targeted: a BAE Systems munitions facility in Wales, an air-defence company’s factory in Berlin and a Ukrainian-owned logistics firm in London.

Authorities have arrested suspects for plots to bomb or sabotage a military base in Bavaria and a French facility supporting Ukraine’s war efforts. Agencies disrupted a plot to assassinate the CEO of German arms maker Rheinmetall, a supplier of artillery shells to Ukraine. Latvian authorities tracked down saboteurs dispatched to several countries on paid missions. Norway’s domestic intelligence service warns of the threat of sabotage to train lines and to gas facilities supplying much of Europe.

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The West is running out of non-military options for response, since it is already imposing extensive economic and diplomatic sanctions against Moscow and has limited capacity or opportunity to retaliate in kind inside Russia. Still, a more strenuous response by Western governments is needed.

[Edit typo.]

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