I am also interested in your perspective. Why do you think this report was made? Why can’t it be trusted, but other reports that say it is al fine there can be trusted?

Genuinely curious, if you have the time or enthousiasm to continue if course.

Right, I know this is an unwinnable discussion, but whatever.

Perhaps a bit of a language barrier. English is (as you probably guessed) not my first language.

In the Netherlands government and the state are 2 different things. The state is the entire governmental organization as a whole.

By the government I mean the coalition, the ministers and the prime minister.

The NPO (which Nieuwsuur falls under) gets its funding from the state. They get allocated a fixed amount each year.

The government can not directly influence anything that is done with this money.

So yes, I strongly believe this reporting is unbiased. I base this opinion on the years of reporting they have done before this item, and the years after. They do t let themselves be influenced by the ‘daily opinion’, they criticize left and right equally.

The current government is currently not at all what I voted for, but I also know that there are plenty of parties in opposition that do seriously use these reports to hold the coalition (government) accountable. So yes, I do think that good reporting can help steer the government away from making deals with countries as such.

What part of the report makes you think it is biased against the Chinese? I don’t dislike the Chinese people, just the factually proven mistreatment of the Uyghur people.

I am not saying that, perhaps i worded it weirdly. I was merely trying to explain a reason why this report can’t simply be put down as ‘biased’. But since you are apparently not interested in the contents of said report I guess there is no convincing you. I just want to implore you to just like with any other country (or entity for that matter) to never blindly defend them.

Don’t think I’m defending the Dutch government here, I strongly oppose the current government (what’s left of it), but I do want to praise actual good journalism. It is something that is unfortunately becoming less and less common.

You are somehow completely missing the point. Why would there be something else at play? What possible reason could the Dutch government have to want a report like this to exist? The opposition often gives the coalition a lot of heat for things like this, actually affecting legislation. Again, 0 reasons to think that this TV program is biased in their reporting. They even have some more recent items you would actually like, about how Dutch innovation is starting to fall behind compared to China.

The point is this:

It is perfectly understandable to dislike ‘the west’ or anything you want to fit into that term, but don’t use that as an excuse to defend other parties. No matter who they are.

I wish it was different, I wish China could focus their internal and external policies on items that actually benefited them.

I’m not saying that this completely stopped them in their tracks. But it would obviously be in the governments best interests to not bring to light an item like this. It would be easier for them they don’t have to worm their way out of difficult interviews

Politicians were being questioned by other media based on this report. They had to defend improving relations and creating stronger economic bonds with a country that did not have a great human rights record.

This is a Dutch investigative piece (English subtitles available) made by the Dutch government funded TV program ‘Nieuwsuur’. Before you start bashing on it for it being biased because the TV program is government funded, a lot of Dutch politicians at the time strongly wanted to increase our trade agreements with China, this item was actively hindering that.

https://youtu.be/ixdGGZ4Nof0

I get disliking a lot of the ‘American exceptionalism’ you see on some corners of the internet, but one must also be cautious of not accidentally creating your own ‘Chinese exceptionalism’. There is actual concrete proof that this is happening in China. This is of course not the fault of the Chinese people, this is government policy, not the fault of the whole Chinese people. But if we become to cautious to speak up about issues like these, they will keep occurring in all parts of the world.

I don’t think I’ll be able to convince anyone in here, but due to me more and more frequently spotting posts about these on my Lemmy feed, I was itching to speak up about it.

As someone who really enjoyed CS1, but got disinterested in CS2 after hearing about all the performance woes it was having, how would you describe the current state of the game? The steam reviews are still at ‘mixed’ but they ve had some time now to address concerns.

Have to take a look at Fork (annoying name to Google I image). Sourcetree can be quite sluggish and downright annoying on macOS.

Ditto on the CLI having its pro’s and cons

Except it doesn’t, you got the implication wrong. If I say “Astronauts sometimes eat apples” that does not imply that all people who eat apples are astronauts. The statement can still be true even if some/most people who miss their exits are not good drivers.