At the press of a button, all of those Chinese smart cars will transform to robot mode and form the AI-PLA! They'll then promptly repair and upgrade all of the USA's shithole-tier infrastructure, distribute educational tools and pamphlets across the US working class to give them class consciousness, and then promptly turn back into cars so that the US proletariat have the mobility needed to effectively organise.
The security risk is US auto makers having competition.
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Chicken tax 2.0: the chuds will riot over tariffs so we should just go to war instead
muh free market
... Just ignore how GM, Ford, Tesla and others are spying on Americans... they are doing it for Uncle Sam so its fine
*spying on Americans but for subscription fee paid by the spyee.
"your heated seat rental (and power steering) has lapsed, please swipe your card to restore functionality!"
So theyre confirming that American tech spies on us.
It's not as if we didn't know this. PRISM has only grown in the 10 years since it was leaked.
Now we have credible allegations that macOS is designed to spy on you and Windows' spying is beyond obvious at this point
Ugh, I want an affordable tiny electric smart car. US is always a buzzkill.
You will have a coal-powered SUV that falls apart after 5 years and you will like it
It's either that or that low poly muskmobile began disintegrating even before it was put together
Okay but like if I could actually have a coal powered SUV I would because steam engines are neat as hell. I want a Thomas the tank engine monster truck now.
They're called steam traction engines.
Omg they are exactly as cool as I was hoping!
OG rolling coal
China is already the largest exporter of cars and they are pretty much banned from the US market except for US-branded cars like the Buick Envision. There's the whole rest of the world where China can undercut and possibly annihilate US and European makers.
I love how they can just completely ignore the WTO and their own capitalist free and fair trade rules when they suit them by crying national security. As long as it has electronics in it no one even looks at it funny.
US has been massively abusing TWO and has blocked judge nominations so cases against it can't go forward https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/explained/article/3042511/us-has-crippled-wtos-appeal-court-what-does-mean-asia
China also published an interesting report on the subject, in particular:
The US poses the biggest challenge to the global trading system. Following “America First” policy, the US has refused to shoulder its due obligations under multilateral trading agreements, and withdrawn from international treaties and organizations, taking a heavy toll on the development and functioning of the global trading system. A WTO dispute settlement report has identified the US as the biggest rule-breaker, responsible for two-thirds of violations of WTO rules. The US also blocked the appointment of new judges in the WTO Appellate Body, leading to an impasse in the Appellate Body since December 2019.
https://www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/wjbxw/202206/t20220619_10706059.html
I'm starting to think that BRICS wasn't even something these nations did willingly, but they were forced into it by the US just not giving them any other options if they didn't want their economies to be strangled.
risk of finding out the cars are smarter than then
How about the national security risk of structuring your entire society around cars?
Glad we're safe there!
protectionism for me but not for thee because i frame it as a 'national security risk'
Cool, let's waste tax money on this ""investigation"". Better than spending it on bombs for Zionist terrorists to use against children I guess.
Also, completely unrelated side note: did you know US homelessness increased 12% in 2023? If that pace continues we'll double the homeless population between 5-6 years, and by about 2040 the percentage of USians who are homeless will be past 1% (so one out of every hundred people in the US). So glad we aren't spending money to investigate that, cuz fuck the poors amIright? /s
I'm conflicted on how I feel about this. On one hand, protectionist slows down the deindustrialization of America, which is bad. On the other hand, it hampers American competitiveness and innovation.
On the other hand, it hampers American competitiveness and innovation.
Mildly disagree with this. Protectionism alone does not hamper innovation. For example, China's protectionism against American tech companies like Amazon and Facebook didn't do so because there was a complimentary policy in place to help develop alternatives. If America is never going to invest in electric cars properly, their automobile industry is not going to keep up, protected or not.
True, but with protectionism, America's private industry loses even the slightest motivation to continue innovating. Also it increases the cost of things in America.
Smdh China fitting it's EV's with coffee machines.
love too pay $40k for a half-decent car instead of paying BYD $11k
cranes, planes, and automobiles
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