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The US is not going to win at car manufacturing outside the US anymore and right now it's not even clear it will win inside the US or with our closest trading p
by ecocentrik 2y ago
The US is not going to win at car manufacturing outside the US anymore and right now it's not even clear it will win inside the US or with our closest trading partners. Tariffs are not being wielded effectively to protect US car manufacturing in the US.
- daveguy 2y agoAgreed. Tarrifs and doge are clearly being wielded to diminish US standing in the world. See also: shutting down relatively inexpensive aid programs that feed hungry people all over the world. And shutting down pro-democracy broadcasting throughout the world. Our adversaries have never had a better opportunity to jump in as heroes. Or even just, not assholes. Destruction of soft power directly by the tool in charge. US influence around the world went poof in a matter of weeks. Xi and Putin couldn't have planned it better.
- enaaem 2y agoA businessman like Trump sees money as goal in of itself. Statesmen like Xi and Putin see money as a means to an end.
- tim333 2y agoTesla were doing pretty well at competing with the Chinese in China.
- ecocentrik 2y agoThey were competing and holding their own. I wouldn't say they were winning. The major advantage BYD had was as a battery manufacturer who had also vertically integrated into lithium mining. Tesla has tried to replicate their manufacturing and mining operations but is still lagging in the development of those facets of their business.