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A protester allegedly assaulted during the visit of Chinese Premier Li to Auckland in 2024 may have seemed a cut and dried case, given the whole event was captured on video. But on the very same day it featured in a global report on tactics deployed by China to silence protesters abroad, police told the victim they were closing the case. Were police hamstrung by a gap in the law? Or did they not consider the possibility of foreign interference? Paula Penfold reports.

Kicked and on film and no prosecution by cops.

 

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Chinese Cranes in American Ports​

Most of the cranes moving containers at U.S. ports are Chinese made. In fact, over 80% of them come from a single company: ZPMC, a Chinese state-owned manufacturer based in Shanghai.

Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries (ZPMC) became the global crane leader by undercutting rivals on price and delivery speed.

• Today, it controls nearly 70% of the global container crane market
• ZPMC cranes operate in over 300 ports worldwide, including major U.S. terminals
• ZPMC cranes typically cost 40% less than Western competitors, enabled by state financing, cheap labor, and domestic steel subsidies.

U.S. intelligence agencies have grown increasingly concerned that ZPMC cranes could be used for surveillance or disruption of port operations.

• In 2021, the FBI raided a ship delivering ZPMC cranes to the Port of Baltimore, finding embedded communications equipment.
• A 2023 Congressional report revealed that ZPMC shipped cranes with unauthorized cellular modems, creating potential remote-access vulnerabilities.
• U.S. officials say Chinese national security laws require ZPMC to share source code with Beijing — enabling state access.

The USTR recently proposed 100% tariffs on Chinese-made ship-to-shore cranes — a move clearly meant to price ZPMC out of the market.

And earlier this month in June 2025, the US House of Rep. passed the Maritime Supply Chain Security Act, which lets ports use federal grants to replace Chinese cranes with equipment made in the U.S. or by trusted allies.

ZPMC has denied all allegations, calling the claims misleading and asserting that its cranes pose no cybersecurity threat. The company warned that U.S. tariffs could lead to port slowdowns and severe supply chain disruptions.

Other countries are taking a harder look at ZPMC too. A 2023 European Parliament study flagged its cranes as a security risk tied to China-linked infrastructure. India acted earlier — after the 2020 border clash with China, it tightened procurement rules to block bids from Chinese firms like ZPMC.

If you are interested in this topic, here's a detailed deep-dive - https://crossdockinsights.com/p/chinese-cranes-in-american-ports-zpmc

 

[Picanha]

EU schließt chinesische Firmen von großen Ausschreibungen für Medizinprodukte aus

Die EU-Kommission schließt künftig chinesische Unternehmen von öffentlichen Aufträgen für medizinische Geräte im Wert von mehr als fünf Millionen Euro aus."Unser Ziel ist es, mit diesen Maßnahmen gleiche Wettbewerbsbedingungen für EU-Unternehmen zu schaffen.

de.finance.yahoo.com

Chinese companys get exempted from public tenders regarding health care equipment in the EU.

Due to unfair practices on mainland China.

But to be honest I don't want to have Chinese X ray machines here anyway.

 

[primer]

They are either your's or have minor cosmetic changes.

 

[primer]

Bernie Madhoff scale ponzi scheme
The summary of facts for the burglary notes that Tedy Teow, the founder of MBI International Holdings, became a fugitive in 2020 when Interpol issued a “red notice” indicating that China wanted him extradited there to face charges. He was arrested in Thailand last year and extradited to China in August. “Teow has been providing the Chinese with detailed information on how the MBI scam was executed and the people in Malaysia who were involved in laundering the money operation, and we [the police] are acting on it,” Malaysian Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail told news agency CNA this month. Police in Malaysia have recovered roughly $1.5 billion (in New Zealand dollars) in assets from the company, which went defunct after the “scam collapsed”, according to the official. But it is believed the company pilfered about $12.7 billion from Chinese investors alone, he said.

Supercharged double your money every year promises managed to draw in billions.
Chinese hired islanders for redress

Two young men who participated in a terrifying middle-of-the-night burglary inside an Epsom “mansion” said they were hired to do so as part of an ill-advised vigilante justice plot by someone who claimed to be the victim of an $8 million pyramid scheme.

 

[Picanha]

Next bubble EVs

So much overcapacity that they give massive discounts and the market is shrinking in China.

BYD can't sell what it produces.

Weltgrößter E-Auto-Konzern kann seine Fahrzeuge nicht verkaufen

E-Auto-Weltmarktführer BYD kämpft mit Überkapazitäten. Auf dem chinesischen Markt sinken die Verkaufszahlen. Platzt jetzt die E-Auto-Blase in China?

www.merkur.de

 

[Picanha]

BYD has about 340000 unsold units. They make new cars used cars a thing known in the west too with one day car registrations for example.

But not on this scale.

They even destroyed the Chinese car market with this dumping and overcapacity commie S**t.

 

[Picanha]

EU Finds China Responsible For 80 Percent Of Russia Sanctions Avoidance, Says German Report

The European Union says China, including Hong Kong, is responsible for "approximately" 80 percent of the circumventions of sanctions against Russia even though Beijing continues to deny it.

www.rferl.org

Time to end trade. Also when do the finally want to stop the free shipping farce?

Nothing happens all the time.

 

[Picanha]

Chinese Cranes in American Ports​

Most of the cranes moving containers at U.S. ports are Chinese made. In fact, over 80% of them come from a single company: ZPMC, a Chinese state-owned manufacturer based in Shanghai.

Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries (ZPMC) became the global crane leader by undercutting rivals on price and delivery speed.

• Today, it controls nearly 70% of the global container crane market
• ZPMC cranes operate in over 300 ports worldwide, including major U.S. terminals
• ZPMC cranes typically cost 40% less than Western competitors, enabled by state financing, cheap labor, and domestic steel subsidies.

U.S. intelligence agencies have grown increasingly concerned that ZPMC cranes could be used for surveillance or disruption of port operations.

• In 2021, the FBI raided a ship delivering ZPMC cranes to the Port of Baltimore, finding embedded communications equipment.
• A 2023 Congressional report revealed that ZPMC shipped cranes with unauthorized cellular modems, creating potential remote-access vulnerabilities.
• U.S. officials say Chinese national security laws require ZPMC to share source code with Beijing — enabling state access.

The USTR recently proposed 100% tariffs on Chinese-made ship-to-shore cranes — a move clearly meant to price ZPMC out of the market.

And earlier this month in June 2025, the US House of Rep. passed the Maritime Supply Chain Security Act, which lets ports use federal grants to replace Chinese cranes with equipment made in the U.S. or by trusted allies.

ZPMC has denied all allegations, calling the claims misleading and asserting that its cranes pose no cybersecurity threat. The company warned that U.S. tariffs could lead to port slowdowns and severe supply chain disruptions.

Other countries are taking a harder look at ZPMC too. A 2023 European Parliament study flagged its cranes as a security risk tied to China-linked infrastructure. India acted earlier — after the 2020 border clash with China, it tightened procurement rules to block bids from Chinese firms like ZPMC.

If you are interested in this topic, here's a detailed deep-dive - https://crossdockinsights.com/p/chinese-cranes-in-american-ports-zpmc

I remember reading the discussion when the yard building the Prince of Wales used a ZPMC crane.

 

[Picanha]

Clown economy threw out some predictable numbers again.

China’s GDP grows 5.2% as exports show resilience against Trump trade war

World’s second-biggest economy on track for full-year target despite weak demand at home

www.ft.com

Keep in mind this is the economy which grew 2% in 2020 when the rest of the world had minus growth. Can't also be explained with face masks making off for the rest of the lost businesses.

In China salaries are falling constantly with many people not getting decent jobs and large parts having no social security.

Yes people are pre ordering that may be a reason but else.

The paradise of unsold low margin stuff.

But always meets growth expectations until the big bang comes.

Who still invests on China?

The global south can't by far replace the West and China is feeling / will feel that.

Big pile of lies and obfuscation works as long as it works but not endlessly.

 

[Picanha]

This is a growth economy the ubiquitous Chinese citizen is abused for Xis global goals to work the competition into the ground with ever less earning quasi slaves.

China's Focus on Economic Output is Crushing Some Citizens

The lopsided nature of growth in the world's second-largest economy is a product of policies that favour exporters over consumers

www.asiafinancial.com

Even state run companies reduce salaries.

 

[Hiryu2.0]

Why China Won’t Stop the Fentanyl Trade

The opioid that kills tens of thousands of Americans every year has become a source of political leverage that Beijing won’t easily give up.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[Picanha]

Angelina Koehler German swimmer gets harassed by Chinese "fans" and called Nazi and a pig.

For calling out Chinese swimmer which was tested positive for doping but still could participate.

I'm all for a new iron curtain let them play their games alone.

Orchestrated bot society can hold their crazy dictator games in Pyeong Yang as an alternative.

Angelina fears the orchestrated China fans.

Angelina Köhler schwimmt bei der WM gegen den Hass an

Bei den Olympischen Spielen 2024 landet Angelina Köhler auf Rang vier. Mit Blick auf die Bronze-Gewinnerin aus China spricht sie von einem Beigeschmack. Danach erhält sie Hass-Nachrichten. Nun tritt sie bei der Schwimm-WM in Singapur an - und hat Sorgen.

www.n-tv.de

 

[Picanha]

The Chibese students studying in Germany have to sign contracts with the CCP first.

Among others:

No bad mouthing of China
No anti Chinese gov activities
Regular reorting at the Chinese embassy

Munich university even calls that a pilar of their international engagement and can't see no problems.

There you have them again some Asperger type profs finally finding the perfect students they so love.

And helping the evil system with their self hate and atupid admiration of disciplined China.

Well somehow they lack some serious intelectual caiacity or they do it on purpose.

They have no place there deciding to give autocratic spy drones access to our sciences.

The one who pays decides these Chinese students are worthless if they do not work here. To the contrary I finance potentiakly dangerous Chinese development with my taxes because some uni clowns are on a naïve/deranged F*** the system trip.

Remove the China guys asap.

BTW

Munich public transport bought 5 BYD buses.

Will ask them who pays their salaries buys the tickets and later pays their pensions.

And the person forking tax money out to ememy state controlled companies.

 

[Picanha]

The academic society is aware of the Chinese spy students.

ETH Zurich in Switzerland screens students.

In Germany they can happily spy getting put in place by a complacent uni.

Chinesische Studentin unter Spionageverdacht

Tausende Studierende in Bayern kommen aus China. Gegen eine wird nun wegen möglichen Geheimnisverrats ermittelt.

www.forschung-und-lehre.de

 

[Picanha]

Now China also leads AI.

This article has insight written by a Chinese.

He sheds light on Chinas AI narrative.
A similar thing was done in regards to surpassing Germany in engineering prowess in just 25 years of copycat works. They now also lead in AI.

Haha so cool they can't even come up with a new field ot development but instantly hijack everything new and declare themselves winner. Cute.

Guys pack your stuff we've lost China is the man better in everything.

But at the same time very preoccupied of getting shut out from Western sciences.

China’s AI Hype Echoes Mao’s ‘Satellite’ Era | The Daily Economy

China has no shortage of technical talent. But AI isn’t just about technical skill — it’s about curiosity, questioning assumptions, and challenging authority.

thedailyeconomy.org

The Chinese state narratives extend to various fields.

I just did a quick google and google presented me CCP propaganda as a fact that 8 of 10 top world scientific institutions are now in China source: Global Times China.



The Wuhan lab one of those?

What kind of victims are those sitting everywhere and parroting CCP narratives since 2 decades?


What about all that serious talk of China will surpass US in 2032 what's left of that?

Its a humongous mirage.

 

[Picanha]

Found a list from Nature supporting that.

2024 Research Leaders: Leading academic institutions | Nature Index

The Nature Index tracks the affiliations of high-quality scientific articles. Updated monthly, the Nature Index presents research outputs by institution and country. Use the Nature Index to interrogate publication patterns and to benchmark research performance.

www.nature.com

So China also spams the scientific world with masses as these rankings seem to be purely related to output.

Wasn't Nature also the magazine to quickly excuse Chinas Corona F*** up and helping with alternative facts and deflections?

Kristan G. Anderson in Nature 2020 ( I Think he now changed his mind)

"Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus."

The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2 - Nature Medicine

www.nature.com

 

[Picanha]

The sham scientific paper plague also originated in China.

‘The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point

Last year, 10,000 sham papers had to be retracted by academic journals, but experts think this is just the tip of the iceberg

www.theguardian.com

 

[Picanha]

JD.com wants to buy Media Markt/Saturn they grab the chance of the company being headless at the moment.

Want to introduce their disgusting China model here of AI assisted selling and what not.

Sure let's now also give them access to the retail market and all customer data I'm sure they ate super safe in China pinky swear.

Of course they will come up with a "remedy" to that unfair accusation to fool the idiots we have here called politicians.

If this goes through I'll never ever set foot again there.

Sure let the benevolent CCP company KI making selling decisions and analyzing me like I'm a mindless parameter only with money.

Keep that in China for your dystopian full cntroll world of your 1,4 billion disciplines without rights and voices only money to consume and else shut up let the great leader do all the thinking.

JD.com: Warum die Chinesen nach Mediamarkt greifen

JD.com, einer der größten Konzerne Chinas, will den Elektronikhändler übernehmen. Bei Mediamarkt herrscht ein Führungsvakuum. Doch lässt die Politik die Übernahme zu?

www.faz.net

 

[Picanha]

Attention Chinese students beautiful foreigners are spies! Don't mate them!

https://www.focus.de/politik/ausland/china-warnt-studenten_id_260286191.html

Paranoid from their own modus operandi?

Also find it "funny" how often German engineers have Chinese wife's.

Should make an evaluation on statiscal spread of chinese wife's and the jobs of their husbands.

Best remembered was a Chinese woman married to an uboat engineer in Kiel. Big racism accusations after he was denied security clearance because of that. And that's how they partly sneek in nobody understands them and they can play daft very well. Honey trap.

Also practically no interaction with the other students not all are like that but many.

They are on a mission.

They have important scientific research like this where they research things for the best of humanity like how to cut deep sea cables in 4000m depth.

Bis in 4.000 Metern: Chinesisches Spezialgerät ist eine Gefahr für Unterseekabel

Chinesische Forscher haben ein Gerät entwickelt, mit dem sie Kabel am Seeboden zerschneiden können. Es soll in U-Booten eingesetzt werden.

www.t-online.de

Maybe give them the Nobel prize for this human advancement.

All their economic posture is just a figleaf for what their real goal is.