This has been happening in Russia since the Kremlin started its invasion as Russia Admitted to Draft Problems as Anger Flares Into Violence already in 2022. It’s just that in Russia, these incidents are now censored.
In related reports last year, Russia stepped up attacks on Ukrainian draft offices.
In the last couple of weeks alone, Bloomberg published a series of articles with, say, similar headlines:
Deutsche Bank Says China Is Energy ‘Winner’ in Age of War (9 April)
How China Is Winning The War With Iran (1 April)
China Can Win Big With Little Treats (29 March)
It is the prolongation of a series of similarly worded headlines with similar narratives over the last years, maybe best presented in one of Bloomberg’s article in December 2025, titled, “Give Up On Winning Against China”.
You’ll easily find these examples and ample evidence of similarly worded headlines by Bloomberg, a media company that has been collaborating with China for some time now.
Examples:
Does the independent media outlet’s collaboration with China pay off? Who is the winner?
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The European measures represent even far less than what China has been doing. Non-Chinese companies can’t establish a subsidiary in China, they always need a Chinese partner that would then own the majority of the Chinese joint venture. And that’s just one among many other protectionist rules that illustrate how the Chinese Communist Party shields its domestic supply chains, including the use of forced labour.
That’s a deeply hypocritical, artificially constructed outcry by a Chinese regime that more and more depends on exports amid soft domestic demand. They are nervous.