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Taiwan and Poland have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on economic cooperation at the 13th bilateral economic and trade consultation conference in Wroclaw, Poland, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) said on Saturday.

Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs Cynthia Kiang (江文若) and Michal Jaros, secretary of state in Poland’s Ministry of Economic Development and Technology, signed the MOU at the conference on Friday in support of the establishment of special economic zones and industrial parks, the Taiwan's MOEA [Ministry of Economic Affairs] said in a statement.

The two sides discussed cooperation in several fields, including information and communications technologies, semiconductors, renewable energy development, and innovations by small and medium-sized enterprises, the MOEA said.

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cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/5644785

Taiwan and Poland have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on economic cooperation at the 13th bilateral economic and trade consultation conference in Wroclaw, Poland, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) said on Saturday.

Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs Cynthia Kiang (江文若) and Michal Jaros, secretary of state in Poland’s Ministry of Economic Development and Technology, signed the MOU at the conference on Friday in support of the establishment of special economic zones and industrial parks, the Taiwan's MOEA [Ministry of Economic Affairs] said in a statement.

The two sides discussed cooperation in several fields, including information and communications technologies, semiconductors, renewable energy development, and innovations by small and medium-sized enterprises, the MOEA said.

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Taiwan will begin distributing millions of civil defence handbooks to households across the island this week, in an unprecedented effort to prepare residents for potential emergencies, including the possibility of a Chinese attack.

The handbook, unveiled in September, includes for the first time instructions on what to do if citizens encounter enemy soldiers and stresses that any claims of Taiwan's surrender should be considered false.

It also provides guidance on locating bomb shelters and preparing emergency kits.

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This marks Taiwan's latest effort to prepare its population for crises ranging from natural disasters to a Chinese invasion, as Beijing steps up military and political pressure to assert its sovereignty claims over the democratically governed island.

"This booklet shows our determination to defend ourselves," said Lin Fei-fan, Deputy Secretary-General of Taiwan's National Security Council who oversaw the effort.

"We need people across the Taiwan Strait to understand that there will be a huge cost if China makes the wrong decision because Taiwanese people have the resolve and very clear commitment in defending ourselves and people are willing to take that action to protect each other."

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• European carmakers are looking into ways to reduce their dependency on components made with parts from China due to deepening geopolitical spats.
• Several automakers - in Europe as well as the U.S. - are pushing major suppliers to find permanent alternatives to Chinese semiconductors to protect operations from trade disruptions.
• The industry is considering broader changes to its supply chain to adapt to shifting geopolitics, with any meaningful recalibration of sourcing components outside China expected to take time.

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European carmakers are looking into ways to scratch components made with parts from China, spooked by deepening geopolitical spats playing out through chipmaker Nexperia and Beijing’s export controls on rare earths.

To protect operations from trade ructions, several automakers are pushing major suppliers to find permanent alternatives to Chinese semiconductors, people familiar with the matter said, declining to be named discussion private information. The industry is considering broader changes to its supply chain to adapt to shifting geopolitics, said Matthias Zink, the president of Europe’s main suppliers lobby CLEPA.

“We had some indications already — questions like, ‘how can you supply me without this dependency on China?’” Zink, who also heads Schaeffler AG’s powertrain & chassis division, said in an interview.

The moves follow last month’s sudden supply disruption at Chinese-owned Nexperia. The conflict escalated when Beijing blocked exports of key components from Nexperia’s Chinese factories, in response to the Netherlands seizing control of the company’s Dutch operations.

Similar activities can be seen in the U.S., where General Motors wants parts makers to pull supply chains from China. GM has directed several thousand of its suppliers to scrub their supply chains of parts from China, four people familiar with the matter said, reflecting automakers’ growing frustration over geopolitical disruptions to their operations.

GM approached some suppliers with the directive in late 2024, but the effort took on fresh urgency this past spring, during the early days of an escalating U.S.-China trade battle, the sources said. GM executives have said it is part of a broader strategy to improve the company’s supply chain “resiliency,” the sources said.

In a similar move, Tesla - which runs a plant in Shanghai - is now requiring its suppliers to exclude China-made components in the manufacturing of its cars in the United States.

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/5644525

Archived version

• European carmakers are looking into ways to reduce their dependency on components made with parts from China due to deepening geopolitical spats.
• Several automakers - in Europe as well as the U.S. - are pushing major suppliers to find permanent alternatives to Chinese semiconductors to protect operations from trade disruptions.
• The industry is considering broader changes to its supply chain to adapt to shifting geopolitics, with any meaningful recalibration of sourcing components outside China expected to take time.

...

European carmakers are looking into ways to scratch components made with parts from China, spooked by deepening geopolitical spats playing out through chipmaker Nexperia and Beijing’s export controls on rare earths.

To protect operations from trade ructions, several automakers are pushing major suppliers to find permanent alternatives to Chinese semiconductors, people familiar with the matter said, declining to be named discussion private information. The industry is considering broader changes to its supply chain to adapt to shifting geopolitics, said Matthias Zink, the president of Europe’s main suppliers lobby CLEPA.

“We had some indications already — questions like, ‘how can you supply me without this dependency on China?’” Zink, who also heads Schaeffler AG’s powertrain & chassis division, said in an interview.

The moves follow last month’s sudden supply disruption at Chinese-owned Nexperia. The conflict escalated when Beijing blocked exports of key components from Nexperia’s Chinese factories, in response to the Netherlands seizing control of the company’s Dutch operations.

Similar activities can be seen in the U.S., where General Motors wants parts makers to pull supply chains from China. GM has directed several thousand of its suppliers to scrub their supply chains of parts from China, four people familiar with the matter said, reflecting automakers’ growing frustration over geopolitical disruptions to their operations.

GM approached some suppliers with the directive in late 2024, but the effort took on fresh urgency this past spring, during the early days of an escalating U.S.-China trade battle, the sources said. GM executives have said it is part of a broader strategy to improve the company’s supply chain “resiliency,” the sources said.

In a similar move, Tesla - which runs a plant in Shanghai - is now requiring its suppliers to exclude China-made components in the manufacturing of its cars in the United States.

(Honestly what were you expecting?)

Hi everyone,

Edit2: I bought a domain (1,50€ p.m.) from a European service which also offers dynDNS functionality. Just needed to adjust my NGINX config and generated new SSL-certificates via Certbot. I also built a script that only issues the update URL if the actually IP has changed. The system has been running flawlessy now for a couple of days already. No outages or any other connection issues. Learning: even though the dynDNS functionality should work stable in theory (since there is not much going on), the dynDNS service provider actually plays a big role in terms of reliability.

a couple of friends and I have a Jellyfin server running which is exposed to the internet via a reverse-proxy and https by using a free dynDNS provider.

The setup is working fine besides the dynDNS provider. We constantly face connection issues, making the dynamic DNS functionality very unreliable.

So I started looking into possible solutions and one particular would be to buy an own domain which would only cost a few bucks each month. With this I could keep the current setup and would just need to change the domain (and possibly the SSL certificate). I found a provider over which I could buy (rent?) a domain and which also provides dynDNS functionality. But I am not too sure if I understood this correctly:

• if I have an own domain, why would I need the additional dynDNS functionality? I would guess that I would just continue updating your server's IP address to the domain name like we are doing now
• can the provider over which I rent the domain with servers in my country actually see what our traffic is? Especially since we are streaming our movies etc.
• is there a better way of obtaining and setting up your own domain also in terms of privacy and reliability than with a bigger company offering such services?

Thanks a lot for your feedback!

Edit: An important fact I forgot to add in my main post is that during these issues, the general server connection should be fine since it is located at a friends house and his internet connection is unaffected (e.g. we could still talk in Discord normally and he had no internet issues whatsoever)