Chagossian people [...] have made it clear they do not want the islands to fall into Mauritian hands.
Addition: Last year, Chagossians took their fight against the UK deal to the UN by writing to the committee asking for an advisory opinion that the UK should not sign the deal over human rights concerns.
Murdoch owns the Times and the UK must get rid of these Palantir contracts. But this is has nothing to do with the topic.
The majority of the Chagossian people have made it clear they do not want the islands to fall into Mauritian hands. But Chinese propagandists do as Mauritius is a strong ally of China in the region. All others, especially the people of Chagos Island, don't want that.
Chagossian people [...] the majority of whom have made it clear they do not want the islands to fall into Mauritian hands.
The native people living there don't want the island to be under Mauritius' control, and they have certainly always known the island.
Those who are supporting UK's move are mainly pro-China propagandists, as Mauritius is a strong ally of China in the region. You may be right that many of them might not have known 6 months ago that the island even existed.
This is fake news, as some others have already have said.
There is one Chinese fund that doesn't want to buy the remaining minority stake in an Israeli project for financial reasons and it cites this alleged ban by the Chinese government. But such a ban doesn't exist.
Both trade between the Israel and China as well as Chinese investment in Israel remain a level. For example, as one report on China-Israel economic cooperation by the Middle East Institute - authored by Chinese scholar Dr Zhu Zhaoyi - says:
On 20 August 2025, Chinese Ambassador to Israel Xiao Junzheng published a signed article in Calcalist, Israel’s largest financial daily, entitled “China’s growth can usher in a new era for China-Israel cooperation”. He highlighted that, while geographically distant, China and Israel remain highly complementary partners [...]
In May 2025, a dedicated life‑sciences matchmaking event in Tel Aviv led to six new Israeli projects, including energy management systems and carbonates technology, signing agreements to enter the park, underscoring its growing role in emerging-health innovation.
Meanwhile, the “Guang‑Israel Tech Changzhou Innovation Institute”, co-located within the park, onboarded 10 seed projects, five start-ups, and sealed three industry-academia-research cooperation agreements during its 2025 launch ceremony, highlighting the platform’s increasing capacity for commercialisation and talent development.
There are many other reports pointing in the same direction. Israel-China ties are strong, including Chinese investment in Israel.
You apparently have (intentionally?) misunderstood the article.
This is an opinion piece and should at least marked as such.
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The whatabouter is you here.
Holding back with an assessment of the case and waiting for the results? The results will be published by the same party that holds them imprisoned, and these stories are well known in China.
The journalists who investigated the corruption are detained, while the official walks free. As the article also says, one of them has already been detained in 2013 for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” - an euphemism for expressing an opinion against the party line - and for allegedly “fabricating and spreading rumours,” but was later released on bail after spending a year in detention - just for publishing the truth.
There are lots of good reports about the Russian economy, and they all point in this same direction.
Read the stats by the World Bank.
Oh, another tankie source. The Grayzone is well-known for ...
... its misleading reporting, its criticism of American foreign policy, and its sympathetic coverage of the Russian, Chinese and former Syrian governments. The Grayzone has been accused of downplaying and defending the persecution of Uyghurs in China, of publishing conspiracy theories about Xinjiang, Syria and other regions, and of publishing pro-Russian propaganda and disinformation, especially during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
No, it means that the Chinese government is burning its own soil and air much faster than the West, and China has much higher CO2 emissions per capita than the European Union and the rest of the democratic world.
Edit for an addition: China's CO₂ emissions exceed those of the entire West: The suppressed power question in the climate debate
While the West becomes bogged down in moral debates, the 2024 emissions data is creating a new geopolitical reality. The figures are clear: China's CO₂ emissions now exceed the combined emissions of the US, the EU, Russia, and Japan.
This should be enough to reverse the Chagos Islands deal.
It wouldn't make sense if imperialism of the past by the UK is followed by imperialism of China-ally Mauritius. It's wrong here and there.