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[US President Donald Trump] has repeatedly made it clear that he wants vehicles built in the United States, not in Canada, even if that means unraveling long standing trade agreements like CUSMA. To Trump, Canadian auto plants are not partners in an integrated supply chain. They are competitors siphoning away American manufacturing strength.
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[China's Xi Jinping'] position is quieter but far more consequential.
China’s global auto strategy is not about Canada specifically. It is about scale, dominance, and dependency. Beijing has poured enormous state resources into turning its automakers into export juggernauts, not just in electric vehicles but across the entire automotive spectrum. The goal is not simply to sell cars abroad. China may not say it as it thinks like—like Trump—but Beijing’s ultimate goal is to reshape who builds them at all.
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Trump’s approach is blunt force economics. Build here or lose access. His message to automakers is simple. If you want to sell to Americans, invest in American factories. Canada becomes collateral damage in a political argument framed as economic nationalism.
China’s approach is more strategic and arguably more dangerous. By flooding markets with low-cost vehicles backed by state support, it erodes domestic manufacturing ecosystems over time. Once factories close and supply chains weaken, rebuilding them becomes nearly impossible. Consumers may celebrate cheaper cars in the short term, but the long-term cost is industrial dependency.
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That is where Trump and Xi converge, intentionally or not.
Both paths lead to a future where Canada builds fewer cars. One shifts production south. The other crowds it out entirely. In either case, Canada is left choosing between integration and irrelevance. This is not just an economic debate. It is about sovereignty, employment, and technological leadership.
More than vehicles of transportation, cars are now rolling computers, data collectors, and energy platforms. Losing the ability to build them means losing influence over critical infrastructure.
The question facing Canada, and by extension North America, is not whether Chinese cars are good or affordable. Many are. The real question is whether hollowing out domestic manufacturing is a price worth paying for cheaper sheet metal and software.
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Trump says he wants the jobs. Xi wants the market. Neither wants Canada in the driver’s seat.
that's a really long winded way to say you have no clue how economics work and don't understand what democracy is
I do have to give it to you, you know how to demonstrate in very few words how little you know. I guess this makes you an expert on the topic.
But hey, no self-respecting Tankie would ever let a well-reasoned opinion slide by without spouting divisive vitriol. Honestly, do you post anything in Lemmy that isn't anti-western democracy or pro-china propaganda? That's certainly the only slop you post in Canadian communities.
You lost at tankie.
How strange to dredge up a multiple day old comment to try and take some kind of win-loss stance. There's no competition to win or lose. Yog spams Canadian communities with pro-China propoganda, and I call it out as I see fit. If you want to take some strange subjective approach on whether I won or lost a given argument, that's your prerogative.
I'd be so insulted by that if I didn't already know from prior interactions what an utter ignoramus you are. Keep on seething there dronie, you're going to be doing a lot of that going forward.
So, that's a no, then? It's literally just Chinese propaganda and weak "lol so mad" trolling the whole way down?
lmfao if you really think I need to justify myself to some random troll on the internet then you're even dumber than I thought, and that's really saying something, now why don't you glide on out of here like a good dronie
What I think is that you're not capable of it. You don't have to do anything.
calling what goes on inside that head of yours thinking is very generous
Yeah, it must feel good to wake up in the morning as a tankie and know the ultimate truth about everything and how to explain it to us simpletons.
Yup, feels great to be a tankie and wach dronies having to deal with the whole neoliberal nightmare they constructed collapse in real time. Meanwhile, there's no educating racists like you.