news China set to become world's biggest car exporter. The EU is mad, wants to investigate

[Bosque]

Importing a Chinese car to the EU only costs a 10% tariff, while EU manufacturers pay 15-25% when their cars are exported to China. It would

only be fair to equalize it. Chinese politicians always want special treatment for their companies and have the biggest victim complex whenever a country wants to establish equal conditions. 

[applestar]

where's my electric car

[Robert]

China leading the way in EV production is a good thing. We can still be critical of their human rights abuses without acting like everything they do is evil.

 

 

Countries should also take notes from them on how to create good quality public transport.

[Mandalay]

A lot of China's cars are exact replicas of Toyota.

[Daddy]

I would never us a Chinese built elevator, let alone a damn car...  

[Jamie321]

Bit rich coming from EU when their car brands have factories in China???

[Communion]

People need to come to terms with the reality that 95% of anger at China within the Global North at this point is rooted in the West's desire for wealth hoarding. 

 

Like yes, there's of course reasonable hesitations from specific demographics in specific neighbors of China over its growing power, and it's important in acknowledging that, but often such truths feel co-opted by those within the imperial core as whataboutism to what the actual conflict between the West and China is.

 

At the end of the day, 95% of this anger at China is rooted in knowing that every dollar now in China's pocket is one that could have gone in a Western country's pocket but didn't. 

 

Because these conversations weren't a thing when giving China all this business was financially beneficial to Western corporations and consumers (and in fact it still largely remains beneficial for both). The West had no problem with China mass-producing all of its goods, buying its ships of trash, etc. when it benefitted the West.

 

And this changing dynamic - that Chinese labour should benefit Chinese people before it benefits other nations - apparently has made people lose their minds.

 

As a leftist, part of my ideology is that there's inherently enough wealth in the world for everyone to live comfortably. But that's not at odds with realizing resources, as a form of wealth, are finite, and the Western world is most defined by its over-consumption of said resources, and global equality at some point requires those consumption habits to change. The vast majority of Western complaints about China are not about what they claim to be about; the vast majority are rooted in fear and anxiety that China's success will impact the West's ability to live as exploitatively as it has.

 

The EU wants affordable EVs, but also doesn't want to produce the EVs, but also doesn't want China to benefit from being one of the few willing to produce them? 

Edited September 15, 2023 by Communion

[barbiegrande]

Europeans always made at someone else. If it’s not America, it’s China

[harwee]

The timing

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https://apnews.com/article/auto-workers-strike-ford-gm-stellantis-78ff5706878c1308cb45d63c8db7e99b

What’s at stake as 13,000 workers go on strike at major US auto makers

 

 

 

Car manufacturing is very tightly connected with economic superiority as we've seen over the past decade with US, Japan and German so this is another point for China if the west can't reverse this trend.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 15, 2023 by harwee