• Ensign_Crab
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    5 hours ago

    We’ve had of ecocomic warfare already. It was just fine for US companies to hollow out domestic manufacturing so China could build the manufacturing infrastructure that could have been built in the US.

    But now that a Chinese company is building things that undercut a US company, you want protections for US billionaires that weren’t afforded to US workers.

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      5 hours ago

      Are you ignoring the whole subsidies thing on purpose? This is not BYD attacking Tesla. This is the Chinese government attacking western industries.

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        1 hour ago

        USA subsidized Detroit $80B since 2008, and that’s ignoring state graft for building assembly plants. What the fuck did they do with that money, attack Eastern industries?

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        4 hours ago

        This is BYD selling cars for less than the billionaires you care about want to.

        Nothing more.

        If an American company badge engineered these cars and sold them in the US at US prices, you would be fine with it just like you’re fine with the economic warfare against the poor that US manufacturers and China have been allies in for decades.

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        If the Chinese government is losing money on each car they export, soon China will be bankrupt. It only makes sense to buy more China cars at cheap rates and bankrupt their country.

        Also, there is no proof of subsidy, it’s just made up Western cope.

        • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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          1 hour ago

          The US government has been propping up Detroit for over 20 years with over $100B in subsidies and tax relief, plus every state government grafts to get a new assembly plant.

          BMW is not in South Carolina for the quality of workers.