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A whistle bought from a Chinese global retailer that may put children at risk of choking and strangulation due to a long cord, slime containing boron, which can damage the reproductive system, and magnetic toys that risk being ingested are just some examples among the products assessed by Toy Industries of Europe in their study about EU safety rules.

Toy Industries of Europe, the European association representing the leading toy manufacturers, says it purchased over 100 unbranded toys through online marketplaces such as AliExpress, Amazon Marketplace, Shein and Temu and found that 80% of the toys failed to meet EU safety rules.

To address this, under the new rules approved on Monday, all toys will require a digital product passport, allowing consumers and regulators to check each toy’s compliance with EU laws.

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Various studies have shown that many toys purchased outside Europe, mostly via online platforms, fail to meet EU safety standards.

[The European consumer organisatio] BEUC’s own investigation into Temu claims that the Chinese online marketplace “is an entry point for dangerous products in Europe.”

Temu has long been under investigation for breaching European rules. In July this year, the European Commission found that the e-commerce platform was in breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA) for failing to properly assess the risks of illegal products sold on its website.

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The newly adopted regulation also expands the ban on carcinogenic, mutagenic and toxic-for-reproduction chemicals in toys to include other hazardous substances such as endocrine disruptors.

Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that interfere with regular hormonal activity in the body, such as bisphenols and phthalates. Exposure to them can be dangerous even at very low doses and may have effects later in life.

Because the endocrine systems and brains of children are still developing, they are particularly susceptible to substances that affect their growth.

Exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals has been linked to declining sperm counts, an increased number of children born with congenital malformations, and rising cases of certain types of hormone-sensitive cancers.

The text also introduces a limited ban on the intentional use of PFAS – harmful “forever chemicals” linked to cancer and other serious health risks – in toys, with exemptions for components necessary for electronic or electrical functions where the substance is entirely inaccessible to children.

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Oriana Korol, a clarinetist with the Unpresidented Brass Band, was in turn arrested after the man and federal agents barreled into band members who were standing across the street from the ICE office and playing the theme from “Ghostbusters.”

Korol appeared Wednesday afternoon in federal court in Portland after spending three nights in the Clark County Jail. The courtroom was filled with her supporters.

Federal prosecutor Katherine Ryyken called Korol’s alleged actions “violent.”

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Kara Sagi, Korol’s assistant federal public defender, disputed Ryyken’s account.

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Sagi also said she was disturbed by the three-day delay in Korol’s initial appearance in federal court. Another person arrested Sunday outside the ICE building and held in Clark County was in federal court on Tuesday and released.

“For whatever reason, she was not. That was a devastating blow both to her and her family” and unnecessary, Sagi said. Korol is a child and family therapist and has a young daughter.

Once in custody, Korol declined to waive her Miranda rights and speak with any federal officers before she had a lawyer.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Youlee Yim You granted Korol’s release pending trial, ordering her to remain away from a designated geographical area around the ICE building and to seek permission from a pretrial officer before any international travel.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20251016113348/https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/10/band-member-accused-of-interfering-with-federal-arrest-of-another-feds-allege.html

So I watched the first episode of Madoka Magica Compilation Films' TV Edition the other day and noticed there is no entry on anilist for it. I guess nobody's got around to adding it yet?

The episodes are cut and named differently from the TV series so the previous entry doesn't work well for looking this one up.

Just curious how anilist handles series that has been updated and released a 2nd time. Can somebody think of other examples?

Tangent:

I haven't watched the compilation movies, and it was a long time since last time I watched the TV series, so I find it refreshing for a rewatch.

It is also being broadcast with audio commentary from the Comedian Kano Eiko, which caused a buzz since he hasn't watched the series before and people are reacting to his reactions on SNS. Examples of things he said:

"I turned down the offer to do this commentary at first because I thought a Magical Girl show's not for me, a 40-something old guy" (Staff convinced him adults can enjoy this show too)

"So, this is Madoka. Which one is Magica?"

"Okay, so the transfer student (Homura, before she introduces herself) must be Magica."

Official site: https://www.madoka-magica.com/tv/

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Indonesia’s top defense official said Wednesday that Jakarta will acquire at least 42 Chinese-made Chengdu J-10C fighter jets, marking the country’s first non-Western aircraft purchase deal.

Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin told reporters in the capital, Jakarta, that Indonesia would soon buy fighter jets from China as part of a plan to modernize its military. Analysts said the deal could touch regional sensitivities and have geopolitical implications.

The plan to buy the J-10s was first disclosed last month by defense ministry spokesperson Brig. Gen. Frega Wenas. Local media had reported that the Indonesian Air Force was still reviewing the Chinese-made fighter jets to ensure their acquisition would effectively strengthen Indonesia’s air defense capabilities.

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/5120287

Op-ed by Vina Nadjibulla is the vice-president of research and strategy at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

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Last week, China’s ambassador to Canada bluntly declared that Beijing would lift its tariffs on Canadian canola if Ottawa removed tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles. What was once coercion by stealth is now coercion in plain sight. The message was no surprise—everyone understood that canola tariffs were leverage to pressure Ottawa on EVs—but the timing was telling. It came just as China escalated its trade war with the United States through sweeping export controls on rare earths and critical minerals, while Washington doubled down with threats of additional 100-per-cent tariffs on Chinese imports.

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For much of the past two decades, Canadian policy toward China was driven by commercial optimism—an assumption that access to China’s vast market could be pursued safely within the bounds of international rules and multilateral institutions. That world no longer exists. Beijing’s industrial strategy—built on state subsidies, export surpluses, currency manipulation, and protection of domestic champions—has tilted the global playing field so sharply that further integration with China now poses real risks to Canada’s competitiveness and prosperity.

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This is especially true in critical minerals, green technologies, semiconductors, artificial intelligence, and research collaboration—areas Beijing explicitly defines as part of its national industrial and security strategy. China’s tactics in these sectors are designed to absorb innovation abroad, strengthen self-reliance, and ensure others’ dependence. Through policies like Made in China 2025, Beijing pursues self-sufficiency at home—from wafers to battery cells—while using scale, subsidies, and control of upstream inputs to make others reliant on Chinese supply. The result is Beijing’s accumulation of leverage and choke points in rare earths, graphite, gallium, solar panels, battery materials, and critical minerals processing.

This is not just industrial policy; it is a dependency strategy that turns supply chains into instruments of state power. Canada’s response must be to strengthen its domestic capabilities and deepen relations with trusted allies and partners—not expand trade and technological entanglement with a systemic competitor. Building parallel supply chains with allies, rather than hoping for Chinese restraint, is the only sustainable path to resilience.

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We [Canada] should focus on expanding trade and investment ties with Japan, South Korea, Australia, India, the European Union, and trusted Association of Southeast Asian Nations partners. But diversification will remain out of reach without building domestic competitiveness. Rebuilding domestic competitiveness and resilience requires a modern industrial strategy—one that does not solely rely on subsidies—but prioritizes building productive ecosystems and infrastructure, scales skills and technology, streamlines the regulatory environment, and deploys smart public financing to keep and build manufacturing and processing capacity in Canada.

Canada also needs stronger tools of statecraft for a world where global rules and norms are no longer enough: tighter investment screening, robust research-security guidelines, leading cybersecurity capacity, export controls co-ordinated with allies, and an enforceable foreign-interference transparency regime. Finally, none of this will work without sustained public outreach and deeper China competence across government, business, and civil society to build awareness and resilience.

In this age of great-power competition, the goal is not to contain China but to contain our vulnerability to the Chinese Communist Party. The sooner Canada acts on that understanding, the better prepared we will be for the shocks to come.

The first EU-China meeting of parliamentarians since 2018 was marred by a dispute over the war in Ukraine

Archived version: https://archive.is/20251017090824/https://www.euractiv.com/news/nato-shouldnt-exist-china-told-meps/

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