Jos D’Haese (PVDA): ‘China is less of a threat to peace than the United States’

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The European Commission has banned the Chinese app Tiktok due to privacy concerns. But Jos D’Haese, Flemish member of parliament for the PVDA, does not think that China should be treated differently than, for example, the United States. “I have the feeling that the discussion about the Chinese app Tiktok is not always about privacy, but also about the relationship we as Europe have with the United States versus the relationship we have with China,” says D’Haese. VRT it. ‘It is not because we are less good political friends with China that we have to fight that war through Tiktok. Facebook and other American social media have also used a lot of information from us citizens, we know that too.’

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When D’Haese is asked who he would give his information to, he remains silent. “If we look at the geopolitical situation, I prefer China. China is less of a threat to peace than the United States. But when it comes to the security of our data, I think we should invite both to talk about what needs to change.’

Absent

As Minister of Work, Kris Peeters (CD&V) once walked away from the federal budget negotiations and did not return. The green ministers in the Brussels government made just the opposite move this morning. They did not show up for the weekly council of ministers. The ministers Elke Van den Brandt (Green) and Alain Maron (Ecolo) and Secretary of State Barbara Trachten (Ecolo) sent their cat because Prime Minister Rudi Vervoort (PS) had not yet made any efforts to restore confidence in the Brussels government. The greens and socialists are at odds over the construction of 500 homes on part of the Josaphat site, which the greens want to preserve as a nature reserve. As a result, Vervoort had to get behind his computer to organize the meeting electronically.

Too late

Punctuality is not the strong suit of the federal parliament. Committee meetings often start too late and the plenary session seldom starts at the scheduled time, ie a quarter past two. The academic quarter was just passed today. It is of course possible that all the fuss about the unauthorized pension extras of Herman DeCroo (Open VLD) and Siegfried Bracke (N-VA) were too busy to check on Mypension.be whether everything is in order with their pension. Nothing but misery if the bill is not correct.