They are both our enemy.
“‘Dragon-Bear’: How China and Russia’s spy operations overlap in Europe”
“China and Russia’s “no limits” friendship is getting a trial run in Europe.
Beijing and Moscow’s spy operations, including the recruitment of agents, are increasingly overlapping within the European Union, a senior European intelligence official told POLITICO, as security analysts point to growing attempts by Beijing to influence EU affairs.
The two powers, which have pledged a far-reaching partnership, but aren’t formally allies, share similar aims of undermining the West, weakening support for Ukraine and dividing liberal democracies, said the official, Michal Koudelka, head of the Czech Republic’s domestic intelligence agency.
“It is not a coincidence that the same entities might serve the interests of both the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China,” said Koudelka in written responses to questions from POLITICO.
There was evidence that the two nations were looking to recruit agents from the same pool of fringe anti-Western politicians in Europe, added Koudelka — though formal collaboration between their intelligence agencies remains limited.
“However, the reason behind this is not collaboration and coordination of intelligence services of these countries, but simply the fact that they are both antagonistic to the ‘collective West’ of today,” he said.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/dragon-bear-how-china-and-russias-spy-operations-overlap-in-europe/
Peak China.
BTW: When was Peak RuZZia? 2014, right before they invaded Crimea.
“Dejected Social Media Users Call ‘Garbage Time’ Over China’s Ailing Economy”
“The sports term refers to a time during a game when defeat becomes inevitable. Officialdom is warning against using it to take veiled jabs at the country’s political and economic system.”
“In basketball and other sports, “garbage time” refers to the lackluster period near the end of a game when one team is so far ahead that a comeback is impossible. Teams sub out their best players, and the contest limps toward its inevitable conclusion.
In China, where the internet is heavily censored, a handful of writers have repurposed “garbage time” to indirectly describe the country’s perceived decline. This summer, as the youth unemployment rate soared above 17 percent, the term became a popular shorthand on Chinese social media for describing a sense of hopelessness around the ailing economy.
Commentaries about garbage times of history, some written under pseudonyms, began appearing last year in blog posts and as opinion essays on respected Chinese news sites. They examined past regimes and dynasties and were broadly understood to be thinly veiled critiques of China’s political and economic system. They landed as discussion of the economy — even misplaced praise for the ruling Communist Party’s economic policies — was getting more sensitive.””