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The US auto industry is in big trouble. China now makes 75 percent of all electric vehicles sold anywhere on earth. US automakers make around 5 percent.

www.nytimes.com

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The US auto industry is in big trouble. China now makes 75 percent of all electric vehicles sold anywhere on earth. US automakers make around 5 percent.

www.nytimes.com

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    Well yeah. It’s hard to compete with a country with no minimum wage or labour protections. And no worker’s unions, they’re literally illegal. It’s a capitalist paradise. They’re either going to move their manufacturing to China, or turn America into it.

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      Because the US famously has great labor protection and livable minimum wage and no slave labor.

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      China has both minimum wage (https://www.china-payroll.com/2026/01/09/china-updates-minimum-wage-standards-across-multiple-provinces-2025-overview/) and worker’s unions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_relations_in_China). The All-China Federation of Trade Unions is the largest union in the world.

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        China has both minimum wage (https://www.china-payroll.com/2026/01/09/china-updates-minimum-wage-standards-across-multiple-provinces-2025-overview/)

        China has no federal minimum wage. And what cities and provinces do have one, it’s way lower than anything in the west. Your own article confirms this, although I’d like a more reliable source than “china-payroll”.

        and worker’s unions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_relations_in_China). The All-China Federation of Trade Unions is the largest union in the world.

        Did you even read the article you posted?

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_relations_in_China#Slave_labor

        The people do not own or control this “worker’s union” any more than they have a say in what happens in the Party.

        Do you also believe America is a functioning democracy? Because if you believe these country’s propaganda lines, I have some stuff to sell you.

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