Members of Kibbutz Hanita near Israel’s northern border are demanding $11 million from Ballet Vision, the Chinese fund that controls 80% of the Hanita Lenses plant, accusing it of refusing to exercise an option to purchase the kibbutz’s remaining shares, according to a lawsuit filed in Tel Aviv District Court.
In a response letter attached to the lawsuit, the Chinese fund said that since the outbreak of the war in Israel, Beijing has classified Israel as a “high-risk area” and imposed a ban on any new Chinese investments in the country, making it impossible to carry out the option.
According to the lawsuit, in 2021 the kibbutz sold 74% of Hanita Lenses, which manufactures intraocular lenses for medical use, to Ballet Vision for $35 million. Of that sum, $25 million was paid to kibbutz members, with an additional $10 million injected into the company.
So you're not different from your opposition. For sure you've got the right answer, and your might will prove it.
It's not about me, it's about the principle you're espousing. Also you don't know anything about me, and presuming you do does nothing for your position.
Edit - Are you also asserting China is not or will never be imperialist? How naive can you possibly be?
What part of fighting on the side of the exploited against their exploiters is always just did you not get?
Might doesn't prove anything. Violence is unfortunately the only language that colonialist and imperialists understand as has already been proven by history.
In your mind was it wrong to use violence on the Nazis? You seem awfully pro status quo which is built on the rape, murder pillaging and mass exploitation of Billions for the comfort of a few millions and the mass excesses of a few thousand.
There's nothing wrong with fighting to protect people it's the part where you decide you and your friends get to decide who is right and who is wrong.
As I said before, you don't know anything about me, so don't presume that you do so that you can justify your righteous indignationand buttress poorly formed beliefs. My family has a long history of military involvement, my grandfather fought from Normandy to Germany and suffered greatly for it. Two of his brothers fought and one didn't come back. My maternal grandmother was Osterbeiter and met my maternal grandfather in a German work camp. All of my family hated Nazis with a passion their entire lives, and half of them also hated Soviets. Don't talk to me like I don't understand fighting for what you believe, and don't tell me I don't understand suffering.
Military excursions in the name of ideology, particularly when they are done by a superpower, very quickly become imperialism. Thinking China is immune to that is immensely naive.
More vibes based analysis from one so wise. Fighting the Nazis was good but fighting the order set up by the imperial power the Nazis modelled themselves after is bad. You are a privileged liberal who only cares about what directly affects you and don't care about the rest of us. The global south is being exploited on a scale that would give Hitler wet dreams and your response to people supporting them fighting back is "you're just as bad as the exploiters if you fight back". It's infantile and plainly ridiculous. Grow up. Do some reading, go visit the global south and talk to people and witness the exploitation you are inherently ok with as you condemn resistance.
Long history of imperial conquest but also fought the Nazis so all the rest of it is ok.
You clearly don't know what this word means.
We don't decide anything. It has already been decided when they supported genocide imperialism and colonialism. No one forced them to.
You're insulting to me and my family, you know nothing about me, and we've strayed pretty far from the point, which was that any ideological regime given unchecked power will with very high likelihood eventually abuse it to spread their beliefs.
There isn't any good faith left here. I didn't attack you personally, and I don't appreciate it from you.
Thankfully, as I said in another comment, although I strongly disagree with many aspects of how my country is organized, I doubt your view of how to organize a country will get much purchase here, other than the aspects which are beneficial and which we attempted to integrate, to our benefit. In fact I'm not even sure you're Canadian so this suggests we have even less of a reason to carry on this discussion.
Have a great weekend, try not to hate your fellow countrymen, or indeed humanity itself, too much. You're supposed to be presenting a morally enlightened regime after all. Not off to a great start.
What made you think I was Canadian? I never claimed to be? What the fuck are you talking about? I'm Chinese in China all my life. I would never want to be a white settler colonist American dog Canadian. Your country is founded on war crimes and genocide. After world war 2 Canada accepted anyone who had an SS tattoo. Canada like America is a Nazi state who perpetuate the largest immiseration machine in human history on the global south 24/7. I will never stop saying death to Amerikkka, death to Kkklanada, death to the imperial core until my brother's and sisters of the global South are emancipated and liberated from the brutal imperial and neocolonial machine. You can be offended by that but know that your offense comes from your immense privilege, all your treats your "social democracy" is funded and built upon the mass pillaging of the global south and extraction of superprofits. Read a book and stop being such an arrogant insufferable privileged liberal. You know nothing of our struggles, nothing of our beliefs, nothing of our lives and you don't want to know because it's easier to just wallow in centrism providing endless "critique" with no action or solutions.
I didn't, which is why I don't see why I should care.
Uh yeah, and you think that China is superior and the rest of the world is full of failed humans and failed states. There is no good faith here. Why do you care to defend yourself or convince others?
We're talking past each other, as I've said to many others on this topic. I'm willing to acknowledge all kinds of great things about China, including the decision in this article, but I'm fairly certain there is no reciprocity and in fact I'm sure you cover your eyes to many of China's failings.
But I don't need to impress you, I've got a great life, a good family and a job that makes me happy. Try as you might, you just don't matter to me, which is why I said we should both just move on.
You have read nothing I wrote. You twisted to talking about China and Canada when that was never the topic. You are either a complete fool or have been arguing in bad faith from the beginning (most likely a bit from a and a bit from b) I hope you reflect and better yourself in the future.