The Chinese car thing is 'funny' in a glib way to me.

Neolibs can't admit that unionized auto-manufacturing is one of the few well-paying factory jobs that still exist and need some sort of protectionism to still exist, because protectionism is bad.

Chinese phone companies collaborating with car companies to make a product that has a UI people like is actually because the Chinese are nefarious.

If there was a Chinese company 1/5th as evil as Nestle we'd never hear the end of it. American car companies have been purposely evil in the past in not fixing stuff to be recalled because the loss of life was less expensive than fixing stuff.

I'm not really hyped on these Chinese cars because of the union jobs that would be lost, and I'm automatically distrustful of cars that are more iPad than car (I don't think I'd like Tesla's even if they didn't kill people because repairability is important).