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more like chinese cars were manufactured with child labor with well below average work conditions
And lots and lots of government subsidies.
Yea, it's the subsidies. The government of China funds questionably profitable companies such that they can sell their products at what would be a loss by any other company, undermining the values of competition in Europe/States.
What does China get out of it? Chinese products distributed globally running Chinese software and sensors which are beholden to the whims of the Chinese Government. They also get to weaken the economies of the target countries.
The United States does similar things with intelligence, but citizens of that country can at least condemn, research, and publish findings against it's own government. What can a Chinese citizen do? Very little except obey.
The United States is also massively flawed when it comes to competition but at least there are theoretical methods for the citizens of that country to change things. If they can destroy the corporate plutocracy currently strangling democracy.
Communist country figures out how to exploit capitalism better than capitalist country, how poetic.
China isn't a communist country, it's a totalitarian country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism
Communism is defined as:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism
It calls itself communist just like a big chunk of the world calls itself capitalist but doesn't let the market regulate itself
North Korea calls itself the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Do you also refer to North Korea as a Democratic country?
If I was making a similar comment using North Korea and in relation to democracy I would 100% exploit the fact that it calls itself a democracy.
Being an open country has upsides and downsides certainly. The same could be said for Russia/China's information war exploiting freedom of speech on those not educated in critical thought.
As if the US doesn't also subsidize and funnel money into specific companies/industries for questionable reasons.
Did you read their whole comment? They addressed that and pointed it out several times themselves.
All they said is that you are allowed to call it out. Whoopdeedoo. Still happens.
Every car manufacturer receives massive subsidies no matter where they are located.
This is oil money, nothing more, nothing less.
You might want to look at some of the loosening child labor laws here in the US. Hyundai's plants have been caught several times using child labor.
I'm not defending China's practices by any means because many are truly horrific but the US is pretty far from perfect in many states.
I have actually heard about that and it is very unfortunate. But it is still no match for having Uyghur Muslims in concentration camps and using them as forceful labor (just like how the nazis did with the Jews). Both are horrible, but one is clearly much darker and more disgusing than the other allowing them to make them even cheaper, on top of thr already mentioned chinese government subsidies.
Yeah, at least the US uses only their own prisoners as slave labor.
What-aboutism is amazing, isn't it? There's a response for everything.
A direct comparison in a direct comparison conversation is not a whataboutism.
Source ?
Child labour? Care to back up that claim?
Do provide a source that shows Chinese cars are made with child labour.
What child labor? There are no kids in China, they have some of the lowest fertility in the world and the most intense school hours for the rest
You're like 40 years out of date